crew management -- later thoughts

[grävling]

Okay, now that I have been doing this for a while I have reached a stage where I am feeling a desire for a different way to manage talents for officers and crew.

For my officers, and a few special crewmembers whose careers I am taking a personal interest in, what we have now works rather well. You focus on the person, and then decide what talent to select for him or her.

But I am finding that for the rest, I just don't have that much personal involvement. I think of these crewmembers as containers to hold talents. So what I would like is a screen that is talent-focused, rather than person-focused.

List each talent, one after each other, what it does, how many units of it we have in our crew as a whole, and how many more units of this we could train, with the final column -- train how many? which starts at 0.

I'd like this list to not include my officers and 'specials', I can see that others might prefer to include them, so make that a toggle.

Then you can say -- training. I'd like 3 more 'evasive maneuvers', '2 sharp steerings', 1 'meteor defense' and 1 'hotwire' please.
And I don't care who learns what -- you guys work it out. (Or is 'you guys work it out' a bad idea? If all the sharp steerings end up in one pilot instead of split among 3 of them, will I be unhappy about day to day performance in battle? Should the only guy who knows how to steer on the boat ever get killed, I can see that I will be unhappy, but we could have the game do the best job it can of spreading the skills among those eligible, if that is desirable.)

I'm finding I want to micromanage talents at the ship level, not at the crewman level. Thoughts?

[fallen]

grävling - completely agreed. We have this on our list to add, the "Talents Rollup" screen. It would also give you global view of what is on Cooldown at a glance.

[grävling]

Sounds great, but I had it in mind for training. change the values here, here, here, here, and here. No more talent points left to spend. Click the big button. ... poof, "Everybody go get trained now, y'all hear! This is an order from Captain Bligh.".

[fallen]

grävling - agreed, it would be a one stop shop to see what Talents you have, which ones are on cool down, and to quickly train anyone who needs Talents.

[Alex Fury]

Along those lines. The non-officer crew seem to run out of options quickly. Only 4 talents total, maybe 5, right now to choose from. Will this go up?

[xdesperado]

Feb 11, 2017 1:25:43 GMT -5 Alex Fury said:

Along those lines. The non-officer crew seem to run out of options quickly. Only 4 talents total, maybe 5, right now to choose from. Will this go up?

Higher job levels open up higher level talents, just have to keep the crew alive long enough to achieve the required job levels for the additional talents.

[Deleted]

Not to oppose the honorable grävling, but some of us have taken a lesson from the failed labor/management struggles of past centuries and realize that for any organization to succeed, the proletariat must be nurtured. This requires a personalized approach to job management and skill development. Simply tossing everyone into a bag and saying, "Gimme what I want" is sooooooo 20th century.

[grävling]

Rolling on the Floor Laughing. Thank you very much, @earthsuit!

p.s. -- I did say 'Captain Bligh', you know.

[fallen]

Feb 11, 2017 1:25:43 GMT -5 Alex Fury said:

Along those lines. The non-officer crew seem to run out of options quickly. Only 4 talents total, maybe 5, right now to choose from. Will this go up?

Upon reaching Job Level 6, you will unlock new Talents.

[Alex Fury]

Hmmm, I've had a few 'crew' hit level 8 I think before this new release, and only ever saw the initial 4 talents.

[fallen]

Feb 13, 2017 10:25:32 GMT -5 Alex Fury said:

Hmmm, I've had a few 'crew' hit level 8 I think before this new release, and only ever saw the initial 4 talents.

Character Level 8 != Job Level 8.

For Crew, Character Level 8 = Job Level 5.

Sorry for the confusion.

We working on better tiering for Talents so they show up more quickly. The current Job Level minimums are insane (1 / 6 / 15 / 26).

[resistor]

Feb 13, 2017 11:34:40 GMT -5 fallen said:

Character Level 8 != Job Level 8.

For Crew, Character Level 8 = Job Level 5.

Sorry for the confusion.

We working on better tiering for Talents so they show up more quickly. The current Job Level minimums are insane (1 / 6 / 15 / 26).

Maybe instead of calling them "job levels", they should be called "job ranks", so new players will be less confused.

[Cory Trese]

That's a pretty good idea. We're using the word Level too much.

[Cory Trese]

Oh wait we use Ranks for Factions. Job Ratings?

[fallen]

Feb 16, 2017 0:08:28 GMT -5 Cory Trese said:

Oh wait we use Ranks for Factions. Job Ratings?

Could instead change Character Level to something else. But that's really standard I think.