Why are the bridges of my ships empty?

[Sticky Wicket]

This is starting to happen more and more now on all my ships (and it didn't used to be like this) The bridges are empty of people (bar the Captain). navigation is empty, turret control is empty.

Even in the middle of a pitched battle no one is at their posts. It looks ridiculous. I go out of my way to make sure there are always a few able-bodied level crew aboard my ships but it makes no difference.

There needs to be a proper crew assignment system in this game, cause just leaving it to chance isn't working.

[Azrelus]

Fill the ship with crew.

Service crew operate consoles, marines just hang around.

As far as I know, it operates like a percentage, the more filled up the ship is, the more crew you see on the bridge.

[Sticky Wicket]

Originally posted by Dreokor:

Fill the ship with crew.

Service crew operate consoles, marines just hang around.

As far as I know, it operates like a percentage, the more filled up the ship is, the more crew you see on the bridge.

I have full crew aboard my ships so that obviously has no bearing on it.

[Azrelus]

Originally posted by Sticky Wicket:

I have full crew aboard my ships so that obviously has no bearing on it.

That is how it works, unless it broke in today's update.

[Project Danny]

Maybe its designed that way to reduce lag?

One fix I found was individual moving them from engineers to marines then back to engineers and they showed up again

[Tin Pony]

Originally posted by Project Danny:

One fix I found was individual moving them from engineers to marines then back to engineers and they showed up again

So, threatening to put them on a boarding party makes red-shirts behave? lol

[Wraith]

in the config file in document there is a line called
<chardensity>"number here"</chardensity>

This determine how many character will show up.
Like for me the docks and my ship are always filled with people because I set mine to 1.00

Don't go crazy with the number though

I once notice one of the chair empty in my falx but apparently the crewmen went to the dock to signal my fighter then came back.

[Sticky Wicket]

Originally posted by Wraith:

in the config file in document there is a line called
<chardensity>"number here"</chardensity>

This determine how many character will show up.
Like for me the docks and my ship are always filled with people because I set mine to 1.00

Don't go crazy with the number though

I once notice one of the chair empty in my falx but apparently the crewmen went to the dock to signal my fighter then came back.

I changed this to 1.00 in config files but it has made no difference. I have a 15/15 crew aboard my Frigate and no one is at their stations (apart from the pilot).

[Wraith]

I can take a screenshot of my station
It make a massive difference

People actually sitting on the chairs lol

[conrado.lacerda]

Your character has to wash every once in a while, or else this starts to happen.

[Sticky Wicket]

Originally posted by Wraith:

I can take a screenshot of my station
It make a massive difference

People actually sitting on the chairs lol

Well you must be running some mods cause resetting the chardensity to 1.00 made no difference in the slightest....and I was talking about BRIDGE CREW not stations.

[Wraith]

Originally posted by Sticky Wicket:

Originally posted by Wraith:

I can take a screenshot of my station
It make a massive difference

People actually sitting on the chairs lol

Well you must be running some mods cause resetting the chardensity to 1.00 made no difference in the slightest....and I was talking about BRIDGE CREW not stations.

I'm talking about both the crew and the station
I'm playing 100% vanilla

Here I just have a video of my falx and the station npc

https://youtu.be/5fK-69suKIA

[ArcticISAF]

I suspect there's another issue going on if no characters were showing up beforehand with the default settings. Really good to know about that character density though, thanks for mentioning that. I'll have to put it in as I enjoy seeing the people around.

[Wraith]

Originally posted by ArcticISAF:

I suspect there's another issue going on if no characters were showing up beforehand with the default settings. Really good to know about that character density though, thanks for mentioning that. I'll have to put it in as I enjoy seeing the people around.

you probably just hit the capacity.

This happen in busy area because every NPC ship does have people in it and if to much activity happen then sometime people take awhile to spawn.

This is why station traders can sometime not sure up fast enough.
You either wait and the trader will pop up eventually or you recycle everything by saving and loading.

[Bab Peeg]

They were banned from playing musical chairs all day.

[Sticky Wicket]

Originally posted by ArcticISAF:

I suspect there's another issue going on if no characters were showing up beforehand with the default settings. Really good to know about that character density though, thanks for mentioning that. I'll have to put it in as I enjoy seeing the people around.

Well I'd really like to know what some *other issue* is.

15/15 crew and only the captain shows up on the bridge of my ship.

Resetting the chardensity has made ZERO difference. My bridge is still lacking service crew.