Posted by: alex_brunius
« on: March 19, 2013, 04:53:07 AM »The same thing can be said about designing a 5 crew fighter with low speed and long range that can cruise for months and years. It is allowed to design such a craft today in Aurora as long as you have enough crew space.
Perhaps also there needs to be a cap on maximum allowed deploy time aswell for small crews, sitting isolated in a small space alone or with 5 others for years has proven to be mentally demanding driving people crazy.
It could for example scale of amount of crew so your allowed to set a maximum of 1 month deployment time per crew member (for both ships and space stations). Some examples:
10 crew = 10 months
100 crew = 8.3 years maximum allowed deploy time.
1000 crew = 83 years maximum allowed deploy time.
Another cool option would be if we could research AI/Computer techs and instead of crew add automated computer systems to smaller craft/drones fulfilling such roles as jumpgate guards.
Perhaps also there needs to be a cap on maximum allowed deploy time aswell for small crews, sitting isolated in a small space alone or with 5 others for years has proven to be mentally demanding driving people crazy.
It could for example scale of amount of crew so your allowed to set a maximum of 1 month deployment time per crew member (for both ships and space stations). Some examples:
10 crew = 10 months
100 crew = 8.3 years maximum allowed deploy time.
1000 crew = 83 years maximum allowed deploy time.
Another cool option would be if we could research AI/Computer techs and instead of crew add automated computer systems to smaller craft/drones fulfilling such roles as jumpgate guards.