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Kirjava
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
6492
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Posted - 2013.05.16 11:50:00 -
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Erm, these crews don't come "as standard" right?
When I went on a insurance fraud spree melting battleships with alts I wasn't killing millions without noticing right?...
Right...?
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Kirjava
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
6539
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Posted - 2013.05.16 20:47:00 -
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It would be interesting if this could be tied into the explosion of capsuleers over the years. We are the ones that served, survived, and were rewarded as per our contracts by the capsuleers they previously served on releasing the deposit to convert us to immortals. That way ever capsuleer has an ambitious, capable and motivated crew, and one with reason to take such ridiculous odds.
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Kirjava
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
8879
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Posted - 2013.05.25 21:26:00 -
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To be fair, there's a good chance that when a ship is on general alert that their command stations are already inside escape pods. Were a ship designed such as this, it would probably have something like the Apollo Rockets, an escape system that the crew just hit a button to activate as opposed to run to. The capsule is an example of a cheap, reusable warp drive, so I would not be shocked to hear of tiny capsule or larger sized segments of ships scattering to the four winds after a ship is destroyed.
Heck, I can even conceive of a short story based on that now I think about it, a Capsuleer hires a Gunnery crew to operate a turret on their ship, and a veteran crew in their pod/ship is built into the turret, then has to run back to high security space with Capsuleers on the prowl, or back to base.
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Kirjava
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
9528
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Posted - 2013.05.26 05:15:00 -
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Actually now I think about it, these ships are Naval designed hulls, and I would assume that with the possible exception of the Minmatar slaves on Ammarian vessels, that strict health and safety standards would be enforced. This forces forwards development of new systems. The chair of a fighter pilot is about 2-3% of the value of the entire craft, and this is cheaper than the investment of millions to train a pilot to calibre in the first place. I would wager that the economically conservative position would be to integrate escape pod systems like what capsuleers have, with the same escape pattern (ejected through a pre existing pipe as I understand it) before the hull fails.
Saves lives, saves on retraining costs for new Naval personnel, keeps morale higher as you aren't in a tincan going to your death.
Haruhiists - Overloading Out of Pod discussions since 2007.
Cardinal Kirjava - Redeclaring the Crusade in the name of the Goddess since 2012.
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Kirjava
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
9589
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Posted - 2013.05.26 06:18:00 -
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Katrina, we're debating the merits of incorporating survival hardware into our vessels, not saying its immortal humans cloning back with us. Even in WH40K there was escape systems, armour to take incoming shots and the like. Even if it only reduces the death count to 10%, many are being killed en masse.
Silens here is an ex submariner and myself an Engineer, we make the intent to let the most people live but we can only take it so far before it becomes impractical. I don't think anything thats been proposed so far violates the economic viability of such survival additions.
We must assume that if a crew exists, this is their job and that we pay them. These are high tech pieces of equipment with corresponding expensive and specialised training, so investing in the reasonable survivability mechanisms to decrease replacement costs is just practical, not My Little Pony Online.
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Cardinal Kirjava - Redeclaring the Crusade in the name of the Goddess since 2012.
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Kirjava
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
12500
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Posted - 2013.05.29 04:38:00 -
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Jelani Akinyemi Affonso wrote:Every crew member gets a free space suit?  redundant but hey cheap! and crew gets to feel a little special (well at first anyways during the "Welcome Aboard" party).
And when the ships reactor and/or magazine detonates in the destruction of the ship?
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Cardinal Kirjava - Redeclaring the Crusade in the name of the Goddess since 2012.
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