Crew Shore Leave Question

[Bryan Swartz (OP)]

I have a PDC on an uninhabitable body(Triton in this case).  It's marked as a colony, but still getting morale issues.  What conditions have to be present for Triton to be treated like, say, Luna which has 40-some million people and the 'crew months' counter stays at 0 there?  Does it need an actual population?

[NihilRex]

10k population is necessary to count for shore leave.

[DuraniumCowboy]

With less than that, I guess its the space age equivalent of pulling into Djibouti

[Barkhorn]

You could also put a recreational module on the PDC.

[Black]

Unfortunately it is not possible to equip PDC with recreational module.

If you play latest version, you could use Underground Infrastructure to make small colony (3 UI should be enough).

[Sharp]

You can also send a ship with a recreational module onto the PDC-colony and that will increase morale as if it was on a populated colony. A floating space casino is all you really need

[Bryan Swartz (OP)]

So it sounds like the options are A) Orbital habitats or B) Recreational module? 

[NihilRex]

C) Underground Infrastructure in 6.42

[Bryan Swartz (OP)]

Yeah, I have 6.2 so that's not really an option for me in this case

[Khift]

I'm having a similar issue, but even worse -- recreational facilities do not seem to be accomplishing anything at all.

Is there a limit to how many crew members each recreation facility can service?

[NihilRex]

http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php/topic,4835.msg57507.html#msg57507

No limit in the original patch notes.

[Khift]

Yeah, it's doing absolutely nothing.   I suspected maybe it didn't count for the ship itself if it was beyond the casino ship's tour date so I redesigned them to have a 10 year deployment time but no difference at all with that.   I send out my mining fleet with a casino ship in the fleet and it gains deployment time like everything else.   Same difference if I split the casino ship off as its own task group.   I don't see any custom orders to give 'relief', either.   As far as I can tell, they're completely and utterly busted and nonfunctional. 

[PSI]

Hmm...I don't know if this would work, but have you tried sending the casino ship to a planet? It's possible that might be the problem.

[NihilRex]

Yes - This has been mentioned in several threads recently, so I forgot to mention it here, sorry.

For a Rec module to work, you need to park it over a "colony" even if the colony is completely empty.

[Rich.h]

Does the recreation module effect the ship it is mounted on in addition to ones orbiting nearby? So is it possible to have a vessel that is able to stay in space for ever with regards to crew morale?