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As per the topic, I want to be able to get more crew on board so I can have dedicated boarding parties, repair teams etc.

I've had a search and can't find any mods for this - any ideas?

No, I don't think it's possible to modify this with the standard modding tools.

Isn't it already possible to get 8 crew members? That's a lot f you ask me, since the ships are pretty small.

Infinite Space has enemies with 12 Crew.

Mj64 wrote:Infinite Space has enemies with 12 Crew.

Enemy ships and player ships do not follow the same rules.

You just go into the blueprints.xml
go to the ship you want The Kestrel for example and find this line
<crewCount amount = "3" class="human"/>
change the number to anything 8 and below

EDIT: yep just tested it now and works perfectly, you guys really should test things before you give false information

Interesting. It's not quite the same though: I bet it doesn't work right for gaining new crew from events or shops. (In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if when you had a crew of 12, if you got an event that makes you lose a crewmember, you then have to dismiss 3 more.) It doesn't allow you to gradually accumulate the very large crew the OP wanted: only to start with them.

(On a related topic: amusingly, it's possible to have a player ship start with no crew. You don't get instant game over: in fact, you get the benefit of AI ships - damaged systems automatically slowly repair themselves! I've no idea what would happen if you hit a gain or lose crew event though. Lose crew would probably give you game over even though you had none to start with.)

EDIT: I've been testing out a mod with this - the Robotic Cruiser - and it actually works fine. Lose crew just does nothing. You can't choose to gain crew, but if an event forces a crewmember on you, they can stay on your ship; if you power up the oxygen they can even gain useful XP. But the systems still count as crewed even without living crew, and if all the living crew die, the robotic ship can still fly on undeterred. It's basically the best of both worlds.

Attackid wrote:You just go into the blueprints.xml
go to the ship you want The Kestrel for example and find this line
<crewCount amount = "3" class="human"/>
change the number to anything 8 and below

EDIT: yep just tested it now and works perfectly, you guys really should test things before you give false information

Every modder who looks at this thread probably assume the OP means 'beyond the 8 limit everyone knows about' and not just changing the starting crew of a ship which is modding 101... no, introduction to modding kindergarten level.

alextfish wrote:(On a related topic: amusingly, it's possible to have a player ship start with no crew. You don't get instant game over: in fact, you get the benefit of AI ships - damaged systems automatically slowly repair themselves! I've no idea what would happen if you hit a gain or lose crew event though. Lose crew would probably give you game over even though you had none to start with.)

That is cool. Trying to think if there is a way I can take advantage of this in FotF...

so... it's NOT possible to have more than 8 effectively?