Ship Crew... Level Cap Increase?

[Yokose]

So I’ve got another suggestion for everyone. Like me, I am sure that most of you have some ship crew running around doing missions. It seems that the rewards you get cap out at level8 when they complete missions. My suggestion is to raise that limit to a higher level. 5 of my 6 crew are already at level 12 and could probably train to level 13… but I’m still getting rewards as though those crew are at level 8, hence the suggestion.

An addition to this suggestion is when your crew reaches every 10th level the number of misc item rewards increase by 1. So from level 1~9 each crew gets the usual 1 misc item for a successful mission completed, level 10~19 will get you 2 misc items, level 20~29 will get you 3 misc items and so on.

What do you all think of this suggestion? Please have a great day, and have fun playing!

Captain, Yokose

[paco1601]

interesting
+1

[Lutes]

I like your suggestion

[Elkhorn]

Interesting proposal. Need to whip my crew levels up.
Elk

[Coops]

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[Coops]

Been looking into this one...

I did some testing with a level 2 Crew member and a level 30 one.

Level 2 Returns with : I brought back 16,506 credits and also managed to accrue 375 crew points.
Level 30 Returns with : I brought back 155,248 credits and also managed to accrue 920 crew points.

On the surface, this would seem to be scaling the rewards up with the Crew member's level.

It is true that after level 8 the 'costs' do not increase, but the rewards already scale base don the crew member and the success. If you want me to scale the fuel and credits, I can do that, but not sure if that would be popular.

Coops

P.S also for background balance, some of the mid-level 20 to high 20's crew have earned over 900 Mill (EACH) for their captains over the time working for them.

[Yokose]

I see. Your testing was with a level 2 and 31 crew? Question, are the results similar if you did it with a level 8 crew. I think what I am trying to say is that I am getting the same results with a level 8 crew as you are getting with your level 31 crew. The point is that there is no reason to level beyond level 8 as the rewards are pretty even regardless of what level you are at past level 8. There is also training that takes at my level around a month to complete, and as I train my crew more, that time increases by 3 days every level. As I said in my original post... my crew are level 12, and the rewards they are getting at level 12 are the same as though they are still at level 8... what I am saying is that once a ship crew reaches level 8, the benefits do not scale past that level, so there is no reason for someone to go beyond level 8. At level 31 based on what crew got from levels 1~8, your crew should be getting more then what you got. 3000 crew points at least and maybe 250~350k in credits... that is at level 31 of course... though your crew will take around 3 months to train from level 31 to 32 as well given how the crews training works. Maybe I am in error though. Don't know though. Anyway, please have a great day and have fun playing.

Captain, Yokose