I know what's bad for me, so don't be arrogant and tell me what is.

Then don't offer a piss-poor excuse for why T.O's can affect a ship, but god forbid miners can't.

Tactical officers come with their own small cannon/blaster they fire from the ship. It doesn't take up any decks as the amount needed to fill a deck would be gigantic. mining would be stupid as you would constantly need to be landing to get lumps of ore allready mined for the miners to turn into minerals. blasters however run on energy from the reactors that is creatable onboard.

If Dan added a limit of 100(or number he chooses) attack from T.O's for every ONE deck, then it would make sense for them to have their own little turret~

As for miners, change it to geologists or something as even empty space isn't a complete vacuum, there is actually stuff there~ so .5 mining per geo doesn't seem to unreasonable

hell, make them an unlockable crew choice after installing a specially designed module (collector esc thing)~

thats still not right consider the size a turret would be which is tiny vs the size of a deck on even a cruise ship never mind a multidimensional deepspace ship.
Maybe a hard cap of 10k tactical officers per deck

That works~ wouldn't affect anyone's attack value in all honesty~ but would actually give some reason for why T.O's work

now~ what about helmsmen? are they all waiting in-line to drive the ship for a few minutes? D:

space workers of the galaxy unite !! too long we have toiled under the yoke of the mindless masters who pilot our ships. we will not stand for being ignored any longer ! we hereby demand recognition of our members in the crew totals ... no more lugging around your beastly amounts of aidonium until that happens ! good luck when those aerlen pests climb up the head ! is that a ripe larva in your xecti stew ?

signed,

Maintenance Workers of the Galaxy, Local 578024503. Galaxy Legion Division.
representing space janitors, dockworkers, cooks and cleaners for over 35672 years !

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It's a game. Nothing has to be technically accurate. Following your logic, there should be no game, so please stop nitpicking and grow up. Every time I see you on the forum you're either moaning, complaining, or being an ass to everyone.

Really Dex? That's real rich coming from you~

Every time I see you on the forum, you're either kissing up to high ranks or being a colossal twat.

As for your "nothing has to be accurate" argument~ Miners on a ship don't have to be accurate either, so why do they have to be accurate, but your precious T.Os don't?