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Ship Crew Management
Info

Updated for version 5.10, TODO: Add information on seminars, finish terraforming section

Table of Contents

Overview

Crew management is an important aspect of improving your fleet's capabilities. Each ship has a limited capacity to accommodate crew members. The crew The ships crew consists of 3 different types of NPCs:
  • The Captain (relief pilot when you're not personally commanding)
  • Service Crew
  • Marines

On stations there are additionally:

  • Manager

 

Stations only require a Manager crew and optionally additional workforce (see Station Building And Management).

Each ship has a limited capacity to accommodate crew members. On a ship, the captain is by far the most important crew member

. His abilities affect

: their ability affects the quality of the ship actions the most. A good Captain

masters

is capable of more maneuvers, fights and trades better, and unlocks new standard behaviors for

your

their ship.

The

crew is

Service Crew are no less important for a good ship

. They also

: they improve the ship's capabilities: controlling, aiming, trading..

.

 and repairing! Everything gets better with a

good crew

skilled Crew! The overall quality of the ship's crew is improved with the number of crew members and experience level of each crew member.

Anyone can

be a captain

fill the role of a Captain (if you only believe in yourself)

. Anyone you

gain

employ, whether it's through the shipyard, through buying via the

docking station ("

ship upgrade

"

interface

)

or through direct recruitment on a station, can be deployed in

all positions

any position (captain, service crew, marines, managers). This means, for example, you can use a marine as a service crew or an engineer as a captain or manager, whether temporary or eventually permanent.

Skills

The quality of employees is summarized in capability groups. These abilities are displayed with a star rating of 0 to 5 stars. If you open the details of a single crew member you will find an overview with the their individual skill groups:
  • pilotPiloting
  • moralMorale
  • managementManagement
  • engineerEngineering
  • boardBoarding

How well an NPC strikes at work does their task(s) depends on those abilities. While the captainCaptain's ability to pilot is most very important, the navy benefits Marines benefit most from the ability to board.

 

Title | Ability

name
Pilot / Captain
Manager
Service Crew
Marine
Management

ManagementPilotingBoardingEngineeringMorale
Pilot/Captain 
X

*

  
Piloting

*

Manager
X

*

   
Boarding

*

Service Crew   

*

X

*

Engineering
Marine  
X

*

 
MoraleXXXX

*

 

All NPCs work better with higher morale!Train

Training the crew or

the

Marines

To make it short: Learn by doing! Everyone

Learning by Doing

Everyone gets better the longer they survive! While marines best enhance their main attribute "boarding" on real boarding operations, "normal" crewmembers get better learn from usual ship actions. However, surviving a fight improves your skills in their skill across many areas!
See X4 3.1x NPC Skill/Experience training - a short overview for a more detailed explanation of how NPC training happens, with external links to videos

Digital seminars

The seminars have not proven to be effective in training your crew .... (Note Translator: feature not yet implemented)To be done
Guide written by Bernd, translated to German by Oliver and re-translated from German to English by anonymous, cleaned up by Sao t'Lp

Terraforming

(main page Terraforming)

Crew can have their levels increased either en masse (for low crew levels) or individually (for high crew levels) provided certain terraforming projects are completed.