Posted by: Dfuzzed
« on: October 23, 2020, 08:05:51 AM »I always consider extra crewmembers on fighters as the dedicated maintenance crew in the carrier hangar 1 pilot + X number of maintenace crew
As pointed out it really depends on what type of components you use on your ships. Box launchers and really small component might not require any crew at all for example.
In my opinion the crew requirement on some components are too little... a Railgun fighter should require roughly the same crew requirement as a Missile fighter which it don't currently. in my opinion the crew requirement for a beam fighter are more "realistic" than that of a missile fighter currently.
We have to understand that a "fighter", any craft at 500t or below, is not like a modern jet fighter or anything... it is more like a modern military corvette or large patrol boat in actual size. These ships should require about a dozen or so crew to operate.
It would be interesting if automation and AI was introduced as an option when designing parts to cut down on crew requirements and increase efficiency at the cost of resource, EMP totally disabling your systems, and malicious AI uprisings.