No pirates on the pirate ships?

[grävling]

In an effort to have some pirates on my ship, I took to attacking pirate ships in the hope that I could enslave a few pirates that way. I never found a single pirate crew member. Shouldn't there be some?

[fallen]

Thanks for the feedback. I've taken notes and we will if we can improve. The Captain is never available for conscription.

[grävling]

Thank you.

[Cory Trese]

Or officers, which are probably all pirates at this point in the evolution of the AI.

Depending on their homeworld properties and contact there, they would end up with odd mixes of crew, but more likely they'll be very similar to what you'd recruit in the spice hall on their homeworld.

Other specialist crew builds will be found in their Officer and Captain ranks. This is intentional to avoid making Pressed crew the optimal source of certain leveled crew types.

Thanks!

[grävling]

I can see the point of this, then, for indeed I was trying to precisely that -- press them as an optimal source of Pirate crew.

[fallen]

Yep. That will continue to the be the balance we strive to achieve -- pressing crew is not the avenue to get the best crew.

[Alex Fury]

Apr 10, 2017 10:29:09 GMT -5 fallen said:

Yep. That will continue to the be the balance we strive to achieve -- pressing crew is not the avenue to get the best crew.

Though, I could see a slight beneficial modification if say, a Pirate captain presses the crew of another defeated Pirate.. as the crew are already pirates

[Cory Trese]

The Pirate profession might end up with additional abilities related to pressing crew, this has some historical precedent in ST RPG.

Remains to be seen. From a design standpoint, ST2 takes a similar approach to ST RPG -- pressed Crew are more of an emergency than a good idea.

[fallen]

Not to mention the Traits they will (eventually) come with. Yikes.