Recruiting new ship crew

[victoriaks01]

When recruiting new crew, it only allows you to assign them to your home ship not the fleet. It is extremely frustrating. How do you move crew from your home ship to a fleet ship? Am I missing something?

 

[SonicPhil]

When recruiting new crew, it only allows you to assign them to your home ship not the fleet. It is extremely frustrating. How do you move crew from your home ship to a fleet ship? Am I missing something?

You assign fleet crew on the fleet computer. There's the original one by Gren, or you can build one in a home or ship. I always put one on my home ship and in the apartment at Spacedock.

 

[victoriaks01]

You assign fleet crew on the fleet computer. There's the original one by Gren, or you can build one in a home or ship. I always put one on my home ship and in the apartment at Spacedock.

Indeed, but new recruits are limited only to the home ship when talking to them. So, if you go to your ship before taking off you can assign them to a fleet ship instead of your home ship?

 

[SonicPhil]

Indeed, but new recruits are limited only to the home ship when talking to them. So, if you go to your ship before taking off you can assign them to a fleet ship instead of your home ship?

Right. So after recruiting them and conversation ends, I stop by my apartment or go to my ship and use the fleet computer to assign them elsewhere.

 

[victoriaks01]

Right. So after recruiting them and conversation ends, I stop by my apartment or go to my ship and use the fleet computer to assign them elsewhere.

it is more convoluted than it needs to be, hiring, firing or moving an employee requires information. Having access to ALL your ships, crew list and their skills would greatly help in hiring a balanced crew.
You should be able not only hire but fire or move to another vessel when you replace them. Missing from the assign screen is your home ship or your fleet of ships when hiring.

 

[Torberg]

As I recall from one of kg's streams, that's a limitation in the game itself that the team is working to overcome but haven't been able to do so yet.

 

[victoriaks01]

As I recall from one of kg's streams, that's a limitation in the game itself that the team is working to overcome but haven't been able to do so yet.

I so hope it can be fixed, having to shuffle around new hires is a pain. I wonder what the best flow chart of actions currently needed in order to recruit and assign a new hire to a new ship. I wonder if there is a video?

 

[Torberg]

My usual process is

1. Meet Gren and unlock Fleet Services.
2. Build Fleet Control terminal in cockpit/bridge of Home ship. Often I'll put the wall terminal version near the Cargo access panel.
3. Make sure I have either:
   • one or two open spots on my Home ship, OR
   • some open spots in an Outpost. I'll often create an Outpost just to have open "swap space" for assignments.
4. Find potential crew member.
5. Recruit new crew member.
6. Assign to Home ship (or Outpost)
7. When back at Home ship, access Fleet control terminal and assign new crew member to the desired Fleet ship.

I'll confess that I, too, am optimistic they'll be able to make it possible to do Fleet assignments from the vanilla Crew screen (since it's possible for Outposts) but I'm not going to hold my breath since KG has said that, in going from FO4 to Starfield, BGS has really locked down some stuff that used to be much more accessible to modders.

 

[victoriaks01]

time to build an outpost looks like somewhere to send them other than my ship umm both show up when recruiting right? home ship and outpost?

 

[Torberg]

They generally should, yes.

 

[victoriaks01]

My usual process is

1. Meet Gren and unlock Fleet Services.
2. Build Fleet Control terminal in cockpit/bridge of Home ship. Often I'll put the wall terminal version near the Cargo access panel.
3. Make sure I have either:
   • one or two open spots on my Home ship, OR
   • some open spots in an Outpost. I'll often create an Outpost just to have open "swap space" for assignments.
4. Find potential crew member.
5. Recruit new crew member.
6. Assign to Home ship (or Outpost)
7. When back at Home ship, access Fleet control terminal and assign new crew member to the desired Fleet ship.

I'll confess that I, too, am optimistic they'll be able to make it possible to do Fleet assignments from the vanilla Crew screen (since it's possible for Outposts) but I'm not going to hold my breath since KG has said that, in going from FO4 to Starfield, BGS has really locked down some stuff that used to be much more accessible to modders.

Out of curiosity, where can you actually see a line-up of the crew assigned to your home ship? It is definitely NOT on the fleet terminal

 

[Torberg]

On the vanilla crew screen.