Suggestion Add crew requirement and capacity fields to factory templates for larger ships

[Exopritl]

So the title pretty much says it all. I personally am not very good at determining how much crew a ship would need to operate or how many crew total any given ship could carry. With a starfighter or a freighter its relatively easy but I struggle with larger ships. I think adding a crew requirrement field which would list how many persons are needed to operate the ship as well as adding a crew capacity field which would state the maximum number of crew a ship could carry would enrich the roleplay for those who want space based action. It could also provide another check and balance measure.

 

[Darth Empyrean]

Exopritl

You're free to add it optionally. I am, however, confused how adding it officially would make it easier to determine the crew requirements of any ship

 

[Exopritl]

Well if it was added in officially then it would be part of the submission and therefore be stated no?

 

[Darth Empyrean]

Exopritl

Like a rating? Crew requirements don't make much sense for balance, so unfortunately no. We would be giving hard numbers for things that are entirely flavor. That might not be an official Factory Administrator answer, but its my assumption the team overall would be against the bloat of the template.

 

[Exopritl]

I suppose I see your point

 

[Valiens Nantaris]

The factory has moved away from hard numbers, and in any case canon is wildly inconsistent about how many people are needed to crew capital ships.

So does it really matter to anyone if a Star Destroyer has 25,000, 35,000 or 45,000 crew?

Not really. NPCs play little part in such things, and people in RPs can simply make things happen as they go.

Or, as Darth Empyrean says, they can list it in the sub if they wish.

 

[Exopritl]

I will just resort to asking the creator what they intended for crew purposes then. Thanks for your time