Question about how traits of crew are determined.
Jun 9, 2017 11:04:11 GMT -5
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Post by grävling on Jun 9, 2017 11:04:11 GMT -5
I like to make 'Sharp Witted' people my officers. If I could find any Brilliant people, I'd make them officers too, but they seem very rare. Sharp Witted, however, is common enough that most of the time I find one or two of them on my starting crew set. Sometimes I find many more.
Unless I am playing a Spy captain. Spy captains are themselves sharp witted, but I have never found a single sharp witted crew member in my initial allotment when I have a spy captain. Ever. It's such a problem that I have taken to making a Military Officer captain whenever I want to play a Spy, and then give them Spy as their second job -- just to get a handful of sharpwits to work with. The planet seems to be significant -- if you find lots of <trait x> in a place, and you go back and recruit more in that place, you get more <trait x>s than in the universe in general. So I wondered if spies tended to come from planets with certain characteristics, and if sharpwits tended to not be found on planets with those same characteristics. So on last night's twitch I asked Cory Trese if certain professions precluded getting certain sorts of traits in crew, and he said no, there was nothing like that in the game.
But I still wonder. I just made 20 spy captains one after the other and never saw any sharpwits in my crew. I'd then use the same map, the same faction, but military officer, and I would start in the same quad, and have some. Are you sure there is nothing in the game that could be causing this? athios -- I seem to recall you like quickwits for officers as well. Found any on your starter crew when your captain was a Spy?
Unless I am playing a Spy captain. Spy captains are themselves sharp witted, but I have never found a single sharp witted crew member in my initial allotment when I have a spy captain. Ever. It's such a problem that I have taken to making a Military Officer captain whenever I want to play a Spy, and then give them Spy as their second job -- just to get a handful of sharpwits to work with. The planet seems to be significant -- if you find lots of <trait x> in a place, and you go back and recruit more in that place, you get more <trait x>s than in the universe in general. So I wondered if spies tended to come from planets with certain characteristics, and if sharpwits tended to not be found on planets with those same characteristics. So on last night's twitch I asked Cory Trese if certain professions precluded getting certain sorts of traits in crew, and he said no, there was nothing like that in the game.
But I still wonder. I just made 20 spy captains one after the other and never saw any sharpwits in my crew. I'd then use the same map, the same faction, but military officer, and I would start in the same quad, and have some. Are you sure there is nothing in the game that could be causing this? athios -- I seem to recall you like quickwits for officers as well. Found any on your starter crew when your captain was a Spy?
