Flight Crew Births?

[Rich.h (OP)]

I am designing my first carrier and noticed it now includes flight crew births, these I imagine are for the fighter pilots. But I don't see how to manually increase the amount of births on the ship design menu, or have I missed something?

[Prince of Space]

In the Class Design (F5) window there is a check box in the upper right hand corner labelled Keep Excess Q. If you check this box you can manually add crew quarters just like any other component.

[Steve Walmsley]

I am designing my first carrier and noticed it now includes flight crew births, these I imagine are for the fighter pilots. But I don't see how to manually increase the amount of births on the ship design menu, or have I missed something?

The flight crew really shouldn't be flying while pregnant anyway. As to increasing the number of births, Aurora is detailed but not that detailed!

Steve

[Rich.h (OP)]

Thanks for the help, do I actually need to add extra births for the pilots or do they somehow spend all their time living in the cockpit ala elite stye?

[Nathan_]

If they don't have the available berths then they do live in their cockpits. It is a good idea to not have that happen however.

[Hawkeye]

The flight crew really shouldn't be flying while pregnant anyway. As to increasing the number of births, Aurora is detailed but not that detailed!

Steve

LOL

[Conscript Gary]

As far as adding extra berths to a design, you'll have to check the box for keeping excess quarters in the design screen and then slap a few more crew quarters on

[boggo2300]

The flight crew really shouldn't be flying while pregnant anyway. As to increasing the number of births, Aurora is detailed but not that detailed!

Steve

in version 6.XXX?

Matt

[Bgreman]

in version 6.XXX?

Matt

To clear up all the confusion, birth != berth.  The former is the emergence of a new organism from the egg or womb.  The latter is an accommodation area aboard a vehicle.

[boggo2300]

confusion, damn,  I thought it was a new feature   one that comes with slide guitar and bad moustaches

Matt

[Rich.h (OP)]

Aside from my mental lapse in spelling  What actual effect do the berths have? If I design a carrier with zero extra berths and load it up with fighters what will happen to the pilots? If I also design a ship with lots of free berths for no apparent reason will that ship be able to perform any extra functions?

From an RP standpoint I can understand them (TNG Enterprise always seemed to have spare quarters for visitors). But what are the game mechanics of them?

[MarcAFK]

I'm not sure exactly what happens to fighter crew if your carrier doesn't have enough extra berths, but one reason for including extra berths is for rescuing lifeboats, you don't want your carrier to mutiny because they picked up the crew of a destroyed frigate or something.

[Charlie Beeler]

It's covered under the v6 changes for crew morale.  This detailed in the topic in Mechanics for the v6 changes. (originally v5.7)

[Nathan_]

Aside from my mental lapse in spelling  What actual effect do the berths have? If I design a carrier with zero extra berths and load it up with fighters what will happen to the pilots? If I also design a ship with lots of free berths for no apparent reason will that ship be able to perform any extra functions?

From an RP standpoint I can understand them (TNG Enterprise always seemed to have spare quarters for visitors). But what are the game mechanics of them?

Then your fighter crews live on their fighters, and suffer morale penalties when their deployment time is exceeded.

I'm not sure exactly what happens to fighter crew if your carrier doesn't have enough extra berths, but one reason for including extra berths is for rescuing lifeboats, you don't want your carrier to mutiny because they picked up the crew of a destroyed frigate or something.

ships with overloaded life support systems suffer crew quarters related maintenance failures, which in turn prompts more life support failures,etc. it will chew through maintenance so you want to get that ship back to a planet as soon as possible, but its not an immediately fatal type thing.

[MarcAFK]

So it just overloads life support but doesn't cause morale failure? I would ave thought it did both.