ships crew - which skill...

[Delandra]

Hi all,

I should have my 6th slot available soon and was wondering which skill to give them..

I have never seen any Engineering, Manufacturing or Repair missions ..ever..
Also what are peoples experience with General Crew [especially with the new leveled missions]

will the Engineering etc.. appear any time soon? or should i train a High level General Crew who could do everything badly

thanks
Del

[pikolinianita]

No idea. Raw data from my crew*:

Primary Skill: Exploration | Missions: 1477/1545 | 95,6%
Primary Skill: General Crew | Missions: 1506/1680 | 89,6%
Primary Skill: Salvage | Missions: 1472/1543 | 95,4%
Primary Skill: Nebula Mining | Missions: 1306/1385 | 94,3%
Primary Skill: Manufacturing | Missions: 908/1013 | 89,6%

*Note crew get experience before changes, when missions were more "static", changed every 30 min (or so), and were same for all crew members, not new set every "refresh", like now.
Algorithm I used:

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      If threre is mission cheap on fuel,
                  If there is mission for correct specialisation
                                assign it for correct member, 
                  else 
                                assign one mission to "General Crew"/"Manuf", or any if not available.  
       repeat till crew or FuelCheap missions available

[MarcSp]

I'm kinda disappointed with my level 3 general crew, they have a higher failure rate
than all my other (specialized) crew. I have invested a lot of time into her so I don't want to let her go.
I'm thinking going with salvage for the 6th crewmember
but perhaps there will be an update to crew/missions that may change that.

[Delandra]

my crew are currently running @

Level 8 -> 9 | Missions: 1207/1245 | Total Earnings: 26,285,275 CR | Crew Points: 196,550 96.94 Nebula Mining
Level 6 | Missions: 1251/1285 | Total Earnings: 38,754,746 CR | Crew Points: 442,805 97.35 Salvage
Level 7 | Missions: 1186/1213 | Total Earnings: 35,900,866 CR | Crew Points: 350,660 97.77 Asteroid Mining
Level 5 | Missions: 1074/1101 | Total Earnings: 37,578,665 CR | Crew Points: 407,570 97.54 Exploration
Level 6 | Missions: 752/765 | Total Earnings: 33,931,574 CR | Crew Points: 224,290 98.30 Combat

As i'm based at my Settlement Foundation @ Trantor in Anvil the highest fuel cost is 104. So I pretty much do as many adventures
matching the skill set as I can.

I think I'll get a General Crew even though he will fail more often.. for RP reasons

thanks All
Del

[aRJay]

My crew in order of hiring, crew points reduced by training.
General Crew | Level: 7 | Crew Name: Lissette Betancourt | Missions: 1448/1617 | Total Earnings: 36,780,804 CR | Crew Points: 494,055
Combat | Level: 8 | Crew Name: Goldie Marquez | Missions: 1587/1637 | Total Earnings: 37,575,688 CR | Crew Points: 447,030
Asteroid Mining | Level: 7 | Crew Name: Timmy Durand | Missions: 1351/1384 | Total Earnings: 37,504,545 CR | Crew Points: 428,880
Exploration | Level: 7 | Crew Name: Dorathy Mccloskey | Missions: 1371/1397 | Total Earnings: 32,627,890 CR | Crew Points: 430,170
Salvage | Level: 6 | Crew Name: George Stansbury | Missions: 904/925 | Total Earnings: 26,723,114 CR | Crew Points: 256,745
Nebula Mining | Level: 6 | Crew Name: Christinia Dozier | Missions: 324/330 | Total Earnings: 17,264,074 CR | Crew Points: 23,570

Starting now with the new system I would select the specialists first picking up my generalist last.

I too being based in Anvil just keep selecting a crew member until I find a minimal fuel mission with a long duration for their specialty.