as much as id like to be able to hand pick my crew in this game, there are simply too many people on my ship, with most of them being robots. However, i propose that we be able to pick our 'officers' to the crew. Officers can be captains of NPC ships with random attributes, or bonuses, or specifically defined bonuses that players would have to kill higher rank npcs to gain. for example:
Drannik Automaton: research +.5%
repair cost -2%
OR Drannik Automaton: 2 random bonuses, where each automaton captured is different.
there would be one officer slot per ship size increase, so scouts will get one, and collosal galaxy destroyers will get 30. bonuses can range from set bonuses to percentage bonuses to help varying levels of players. Players can recieve a 'first mate' when starting that will help give them some basic bonus to their racial ability (for example im inergon, i assume that i'm the captain of my ship, and i would have an inergon first mate, who can give me +1% to my racial bonus (so plus 11% energy)). HOWEVER, only one first mate can be equipped at a time, so if you change races, then you will recieve a new first mate, but keep the old one and have to choose, so if you are konqul (+2% to attack) and switch to drannik, (whose first mate would give +4% npc attack) i would still be able to have a konqul first mate, but i would not be able to equip a drannik first mate. For races that have timers, there would be 10% reduction on the timer if the player chooses to have their first mate be of the changed race (so genetaar, mylarai, and taltherian would have a 10% decrease on their timer)
if you havent seen where ive been getting the numbers from, first mates give you 10% of your racial ability, so
Aerlen: +3% defense
Human: +1% xp
Inergon: +1% energy
Konqul: +2% attack
Sillixx: +1% deck space
Vygoid: +2% research
Drannik: +4% NPC attack
Genetarr: -10% timer on ability
Lazuli: +5% Hull
Taltherian: -10% timer on ability
Zolazin: +4% cloak
Mylarai: -10% timer on ability
Officers can be gained through missions or NPC drops. they can be set as random drops in new missions, and they can be captains of disabled NPC ships. they would be stored in the cargo/brig and can be sold just like an artifact for a measly sum of credits (like an artifact, except instead of being sold to a pawn shop, theyre sold into slavery). the more difficult the NPC is to bring down, the better the officer would be. there is ALWAYS a guarentee that a helper on an elite NPC will recieve the officer, however it dosnt have to be someone who locked into the NPC.
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