Crewmembers?
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Ora
- Ensign
- Posts: 20
- Joined: Sun Jan 22, 2012 6:28 am
Crewmembers?
So every time I get a new crewmember, they leave me within an hour. I've had crewmembers with loyalty ratings from 15 to 90, and every time the same thing. I don't get it. What am I doing wrong? I'm making profits, and quite a bit at that, and I increase their pay well-beyond fair. Half the time they leave before they even pick up their first paycheck. Are crewmembers this broken for anyone else, or am I just doing something horribly wrong? What makes crewmembers want to stay?
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countjimula
- Lieutenant
- Posts: 105
- Joined: Thu Sep 15, 2011 4:56 pm
Crewmembers?
The crew member's fees go up as they gain experience and you gain rank.
You can change the + or - amount from 50 to 500 by holding alt, and I like to set my pay 500 more so I do not have to worry about pay increases (even when I have one with a loyalty of 100%).
I tend to look for crew with a high loyalty, even if they do not have a high experience because they will gain that as I play. Once the loyalty reaches 100% all you need to do is keep his pay out of the red and he will say, I just pay more so I do not have to check as often.
New crew will leave, but it does not take more than about 1-3 tries, or less, until I find a crew member that stays.
[Edited on 1-31-2012 by countjimula]
You can change the + or - amount from 50 to 500 by holding alt, and I like to set my pay 500 more so I do not have to worry about pay increases (even when I have one with a loyalty of 100%).
I tend to look for crew with a high loyalty, even if they do not have a high experience because they will gain that as I play. Once the loyalty reaches 100% all you need to do is keep his pay out of the red and he will say, I just pay more so I do not have to check as often.
New crew will leave, but it does not take more than about 1-3 tries, or less, until I find a crew member that stays.
[Edited on 1-31-2012 by countjimula]
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BLEVE
- Lieutenant
- Posts: 138
- Joined: Mon May 02, 2011 7:05 am
- Location: OZ
Crewmembers?
Choose loyality over skill, and overpay them by at least 500 credits. Even so a few will leave, but most will stay.
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Baner86
- Ensign
- Posts: 21
- Joined: Fri Jan 27, 2012 2:38 am
- Location: Australia
Crewmembers?
In my experience the crew members are quite erratic at anything less than 100 loyalty.
So below 100 loyalty, overpay them 500-1000 to minimise the chances they will leave.
Following that just repeatedly do contracts until they reach 100 loyalty at which point you can pay them 150-300 over and they don't seem to leave.
Make a habit of checking your crew management console whenever you enter a station to check that you are still paying them enough over the fair amount. The fair amount increases as you earn money and the crew want a bigger cut, so big spurts in earning without checking their pay rates can reduce their loyalty and make them leave.
So below 100 loyalty, overpay them 500-1000 to minimise the chances they will leave.
Following that just repeatedly do contracts until they reach 100 loyalty at which point you can pay them 150-300 over and they don't seem to leave.
Make a habit of checking your crew management console whenever you enter a station to check that you are still paying them enough over the fair amount. The fair amount increases as you earn money and the crew want a bigger cut, so big spurts in earning without checking their pay rates can reduce their loyalty and make them leave.