How do you work out weight of extra crew?
deployment_time
(1/3) * crew
So if a jump drive needs, say, 20 crew, and you have a 24 month deployment on the ship, you will need 24
(1/3) * 20 = 57.7 tons. Since aurora's smallest crew quarters for ships is the 5 ton Tiny, we need to round up to the nearest 5 tons. Note that the ship may have a little free space available, so subtract that spare crew tonnage first before rounding up
For simplicity, you can see deployment_time
(1/3) calculated and displayed for you on the miscellaneous tab of Class Design, listed as Crew Quarter Tons per Man. (Crew_HS_available
– Crew_HS_required) * 50 will show how much spare crew tonnage the ship currently has.
For example, I have this on a troop ship with a 6 month deployment:
https://prnt.sc/sstoux6
(1/3) is 1.8171, and it shows 1.82 — note that the game is using more precision than it is displaying here. So, supposing I needed to add berths for 20 crew, they will take another 20 * 1.8171 tons, or 36.342 tons. I have (14.5
– 14.46) * 50 = 2 tons of spare berthing, so I need an additional 34.4 tons to fit 20 more crew, which means I'd need 35 tons since we have to round up to the nearest 5.
As a sanity test, the ship has 398 crew. 398 * 1.8171 = 723.206 tons, or rather, 725 tons of crew quarters. And when I look, it has
https://prnt.sc/sstwdl which is 14 * 50 + 2 * 10 + 1 * 5 = 725 tons. 723.206 / 50 is 14.4612 HS, which matches Crew_HS_Required. 725 is 14.5 HS, which also matches Crew_HS_Available.