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Kern Geist
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Posted - 2007.05.16 17:21:00 -
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Edited by: Kern Geist on 16/05/2007 17:19:14
Found those at EVE Online official site in Germany:
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JamnOne
Amarr
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Posted - 2007.05.16 17:24:00 -
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Cool - thanx for sharing
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Balian Bowmaker
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Posted - 2007.05.16 17:30:00 -
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Funny how I've always gone thru even considering myself as the sole pilot and I guess the only "crew member" of my ship. It would be cool if the player somehow was made aware of all the live's he/she takes into pvp.
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Sparkius
Amarr
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Posted - 2007.05.16 17:34:00 -
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 Originally by: Balian Bowmaker
Funny how I've always gone thru even considering myself as the sole pilot and I guess the only "crew member" of my ship. It would be cool if the player somehow was made aware of all the live's he/she takes into pvp.
You'll sleep better at night assuming that everyone in the crew has a medical clone somewhere...just don't read the backstory on clones.
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Jacob Holland
Gallente
FIRMA
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Posted - 2007.05.16 17:42:00 -
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Originally by: Balian Bowmaker
Funny how I've always gone thru even considering myself as the sole pilot and I guess the only "crew member" of my ship. It would be cool if the player somehow was made aware of all the live's he/she takes into pvp.
The number of people queuing up to crew on a capsule pilotted vessel is vast, the numbers are such that they're by nature a disposable commodity.
Read the Hands of a Killer in the Chronicles for an example.
It's also an interesting argument against allowing crews to be upgraded - a pod-pilot has their pick of the absolute cream of starship crews, everyone wants to work on a capsule fitted ship - there just isn't much room for improvement in these "best of the best" crews.
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Originally by: cordy
Respect to IAC .Your one of the few people who truly deserve to own and live in the space you are in.
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Marduk Felzhen
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Posted - 2007.05.16 18:39:00 -
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Haha, wouldnt it be slick if crew became a sort of new module for ships? I.E tech ii exotic dancers increases overall effectivness of ship, or like you could launch tech ii homeless people at other ships and they would cling onto them and bog down their sensors or whatever
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Marduk Felzhen
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Posted - 2007.05.16 18:40:00 -
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Haha, wouldnt it be slick if crew became a sort of new module for ships? I.E tech ii exotic dancers increases overall effectivness of ship, or like you could launch tech ii homeless people at other ships and they would cling onto them and bog down their sensors or whatever
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Icarus Starkiller
Minmatar
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Posted - 2007.05.16 18:45:00 -
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It's been said over and over and over again since Eve went mainstream:
Crew sizes are approximate only and not fixed. It's the choice of the pilot how many flesh & blood biologics they use to manage ship systems, or how much they devote to robotic management.
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Garia666
Amarr
T.H.U.G L.I.F.E
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Posted - 2007.05.16 19:01:00 -
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these are very old from the beginning../.
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Veritas Falx
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Posted - 2007.05.16 19:22:00 -
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If you read the background info most of the ships have been in production for a long time. At the start of the creation of EVE about a year before that(lore wise) ships were converted to pod pilot ships.
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Leandro Salazar
The Blackguard Wolves
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Posted - 2007.05.16 19:55:00 -
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Originally by: Jacob Holland
Originally by: Balian Bowmaker
Funny how I've always gone thru even considering myself as the sole pilot and I guess the only "crew member" of my ship. It would be cool if the player somehow was made aware of all the live's he/she takes into pvp.
The number of people queuing up to crew on a capsule pilotted vessel is vast, the numbers are such that they're by nature a disposable commodity.
Read the Hands of a Killer in the Chronicles for an example.
It's also an interesting argument against allowing crews to be upgraded - a pod-pilot has their pick of the absolute cream of starship crews, everyone wants to work on a capsule fitted ship - there just isn't much room for improvement in these "best of the best" crews.
Now I can understand if people want to work on my L4 CNR, but, backstory or not, I seriously doubt that there is a long queue of top-notch personnell wanting to work on a disposable 0.0 fleet battleship :P
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Kern Geist
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Posted - 2007.05.16 20:06:00 -
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Edited by: Kern Geist on 16/05/2007 20:06:11
Edited by: Kern Geist on 16/05/2007 20:04:33
The crew number on those ships arn't big at all. The Cadari cruiser Moa, for example, is larger than today's nuclear powered aircraft carrier, yet its crew size is only a fraction of today's carrier's (USS Nimitz has a crew size of appx. 4000). These ships probably had a much larger crew size before they start using the POD.
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JagGator
United Freeloaders
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Posted - 2007.05.16 20:30:00 -
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So when my Raven pops, 7000-odd souls are sucked out into the void?!?
Oh, the Caldarity!
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Suboran
Gallente
Sphinx Inc
Intrepid Crossing
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Posted - 2007.05.16 20:34:00 -
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Originally by: JagGator
So when my Raven pops, 7000-odd souls are sucked out into the void?!?
Oh, the Caldarity!
and with that death ratio im suprised that anyone still lives out here.
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Mielikki Neila
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Posted - 2007.05.16 21:30:00 -
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birth control is not an option, and free spiked quafes for everyone! |
000Hunter000
Gallente
Magners Marauders
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Posted - 2007.05.16 21:32:00 -
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Edited by: 000Hunter000 on 16/05/2007 21:30:20
hm.. does race matter? what i mean is would caldari serve on a caldari ship that is commanded by a Gallente? 
I'm not a biggot so tbh i don't care what race my crew is as long as they do their jobs it's fine by me, if they have a problem about shooting their countrymen they can always quit.
what is the big question is.. do crew have clones? and if not, why would one want to serve on a warship thats prolly gonna get blown up? For the Amarr i can understand, they prolly use lots of slaves addicted to Vitox but the other races? Caldari? perhaps the honor of dying in battle? (sounds a bit too much like klingon to me hehe) Minmatar.. chance to take a potshot at their former amarrian masters? there willing to die for that? but Gallente? were quite the peaceloving race... why would my fellow countrymen risk their precious lives?
EDIT: almost forgot hehe, kewl pics OP
CCP, let us pay the online shop with Direct Debit!!!
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Aterna
Talon's Grasp
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Posted - 2007.05.16 21:43:00 -
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If you figure that each world in EVE can support as many as our planet can, and then find out the number of habitable planets in the EVE galaxy...that's easy hundreds of trillions (what's the number above trillion?) of people. If even a fraction of those are willing to serve on a combat ship, that's an amazing number of people available. The real question is, anyone got a good estimate on how many crewmembers die in a given day's combat?
It might not be nearly as many as the available pool, but over the course of EVE's history, the loss of life might be enough to depopulate the EVE galaxy.
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Laboratus
Gallente
BGG
League of Abnormal Gentlemen
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Posted - 2007.05.16 22:05:00 -
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As I understood it from the backround fluff, pod pilots can pilot a ship solo, that being the strength of pod pilots. Those numbers would then be for normal npc ships...
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n0thing
Northern Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence.
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Posted - 2007.05.16 22:20:00 -
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Edited by: n0thing on 16/05/2007 22:22:49
Originally by: Balian Bowmaker
Funny how I've always gone thru even considering myself as the sole pilot and I guess the only "crew member" of my ship. It would be cool if the player somehow was made aware of all the live's he/she takes into pvp.
Nope, imo, you are the sole pilot in a ship.
Heres how it works I think, all the regular pilots and ships are used with their standart crew number, but those advanced potential capsuleer pilots have their ships wiped out of all life-supporting mechanisms and the whole interior modified to house the pod system. You can see here how the pod systems look like:
Picture of pod system
Link to the backstory article
So, according to this, your whole ship as a capsuleer pilot rigged down to support your pod and your brain system that is intergated into pod and your ship.
In fact, if each ship in EVE universe would have crew and each crew member would have clone, cloning industry would overhelm itself at first early stages of this, imgine yourself amount of crews geeting shot down every day, the universe would be filled with their 'last memory shots' more then it would be filled with ships itself. That would create some sort of difficulties since such vast amount of data(and wer assuming there are tens of billions of human-like organisms in EVE universe) would overload anything that would try to route and calculate it.
So Id assume that those who can survive clone procedure are the capsuleer pilots, while regular pilots of factions/navy`s are still risking with their lifes
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Bellannaer
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Posted - 2007.05.16 22:49:00 -
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Originally by: Laboratus
As I understood it from the backround fluff, pod pilots can pilot a ship solo, that being the strength of pod pilots. Those numbers would then be for normal npc ships...
It seemed to me like the pod pilots drastically reduced the number of people needed, but did not eliminate the need for crew.
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Susan Acid
Gallente
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Posted - 2007.05.16 23:11:00 -
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Crew slots which work the same way as rigs would be cool.
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AegriSomnia
Caldari
Aegis Incorporated
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Posted - 2007.05.16 23:12:00 -
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Originally by: Aterna
If you figure that each world in EVE can support as many as our planet can, and then find out the number of habitable planets in the EVE galaxy...that's easy hundreds of trillions (what's the number above trillion?) of people. If even a fraction of those are willing to serve on a combat ship, that's an amazing number of people available. The real question is, anyone got a good estimate on how many crewmembers die in a given day's combat?
It might not be nearly as many as the available pool, but over the course of EVE's history, the loss of life might be enough to depopulate the EVE galaxy.
It depends on if you're refering to long scale or short scale logic.
Since bi refers to 2 and tri refers to 3, the logic in the names is:
short scale: Billion is thousand times thousand 2 = 10^9. Trillion is thousand times thousand 3 = 10^12.
To get from one named order of magnitude to the next, multiply by a thousand.
long scale: Million is million^1 = 10^6. Billion is million^2 = 10^12. Trillion is million^3 = 10^18.
To get from one named order of magnitude to the next, multiply by a million.
These are the names of the large numbers, in ascending order (in short scale, most common)
million, billion, trillion, quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion, undecillion, duodecillion, tredecillion, quattuordecillion,
quindecillion (quinquadecillion), sexdecillion (sedecillion), septendecillion,
octodecillion, novemdecillion (novendecillion), vigintillion, googol, centillion,
googolplex
They ascend by 3 zeros (obviously) so one trillion = 1,000,000,000,000 while one quadrillion = 1,000,000,000,000,000
The question is, Is the birth rate high enough to offset the "unnatural" loss of life added to the "natural" death rate? Natural death could be anything from cancer to accidents to "Acts of God". A contributing factor to this loss of life depends heavily on the quality of life, and this will vary from planet to planet, system to system, region to region, and so on and so forth. Since there is no scientific way to quantify that variable in particular, given that planets in this game are totally static, we could never calculate whether or not the loss of life from EVE combat is enough to deplete the galaxies population. Plus, I am sure there are societal differences that affect birth rate. For example, the Gallentians would be much more likely to have a higher birth rate due to their free and open society than, say, the Amarr, who most likely shun sexual encounters.
My Theory = Clones. All crewmembers serving on your ship are clones and therefore totally expendable. When you buy a new ship, it comes with a brand new compliment of cloned crewmembers, complete with fully programmed intelligences that have weeded out such annoying human traits as "WANTS" and "DESIRES". Therefore, no mutiny, no insurrection, just complete obedience to the God of the Ship, YOU.
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Krulla
Minmatar
Queens of the Stone Age
Anarchy Empire
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Posted - 2007.05.16 23:40:00 -
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Originally by: n0thing
Edited by: n0thing on 16/05/2007 22:22:49
Originally by: Balian Bowmaker
Funny how I've always gone thru even considering myself as the sole pilot and I guess the only "crew member" of my ship. It would be cool if the player somehow was made aware of all the live's he/she takes into pvp.
Nope, imo, you are the sole pilot in a ship.
Heres how it works I think, all the regular pilots and ships are used with their standart crew number, but those advanced potential capsuleer pilots have their ships wiped out of all life-supporting mechanisms and the whole interior modified to house the pod system. You can see here how the pod systems look like:
Picture of pod system
Link to the backstory article
So, according to this, your whole ship as a capsuleer pilot rigged down to support your pod and your brain system that is intergated into pod and your ship.
In fact, if each ship in EVE universe would have crew and each crew member would have clone, cloning industry would overhelm itself at first early stages of this, imgine yourself amount of crews geeting shot down every day, the universe would be filled with their 'last memory shots' more then it would be filled with ships itself. That would create some sort of difficulties since such vast amount of data(and wer assuming there are tens of billions of human-like organisms in EVE universe) would overload anything that would try to route and calculate it.
So Id assume that those who can survive clone procedure are the capsuleer pilots, while regular pilots of factions/navy`s are still risking with their lifes
AAargh.. not this gain.
It's been in the official chronicles. There's been at least two chronicles in EON that specifically mention crew on a capsuleer ship.
There's even been a Dev on these forums saying that capsuleer ships have pilots.
Our ships have pilots. And yes, most of these die when our ships go boom. No, they don't have clones. Yes, they have escape pods, but still die most of the time.
There's no arguing about it. Capsuleer ships have crew. And lots of it. One EON chronicle mentions the team responsible for targeting in a Scorpion is 20 people. And that's just targeting.
Yes, it's evil, yes, it's cold hearted, and yes, I love it.
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Krulla
Minmatar
Queens of the Stone Age
Anarchy Empire
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Posted - 2007.05.16 23:43:00 -
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Originally by: AegriSomnia
My Theory = Clones. All crewmembers serving on your ship are clones and therefore totally expendable. When you buy a new ship, it comes with a brand new compliment of cloned crewmembers, complete with fully programmed intelligences that have weeded out such annoying human traits as "WANTS" and "DESIRES". Therefore, no mutiny, no insurrection, just complete obedience to the God of the Ship, YOU.
This isn't it either.
There's a chronicle in EON (can't remember the exact issue) which mentions a crewmember that's just signed on to a Arbitrator, to get the huge life insurance, to get his terminally ill daughter proper medical treatment. He's very much not a clone, and neither are the Caldari and Minmatar crewmembers he drowns his sorrows in.
The thing is, 1 isk might be **** all to us, but to a average person, it might be the RL equivalivent of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Kern Geist
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Posted - 2007.05.17 01:47:00 -
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Originally by: n0thing
Edited by: n0thing on 16/05/2007 22:22:49
Nope, imo, you are the sole pilot in a ship.
The back story provide no evidence that you're the sole soul on the whole ship.
The people from CCP have said again and again there are crews on larger-than-frigate ships.
Even for the best POD pilot, it is just not possible for him to manage capital ships such as a mothership or even an carrier. A large ship is a complex war machine, merely able to make maneuvers and firing weapons and activate few modules (which are all the POD pilot can do) won't do for a large ship.
Theoretically it is possible for nano-robots to handle all the maintainece and other miscellaneous tasks on a ship. However, from all the short stories and article I've read, the races are pretty advanced but not THAT technologically advanced. And to have a crew may be just the most cost-efficient choice.
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Arachidamia
Matari People's Front
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Posted - 2007.05.17 02:20:00 -
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So I guess the moral of the story is... fly a condor and don't feel at all guilty when your ship goes boom?
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JagGator
United Freeloaders
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Posted - 2007.05.17 05:39:00 -
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Originally by: Arachidamia
So I guess the moral of the story is... fly a condor and don't feel at all guilty when your ship goes boom?
I thought the moral was... don't let your ship go boom. 
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Symb Everway
Minmatar
Sebiestor tribe
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Posted - 2007.05.17 05:46:00 -
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Originally by: JagGator
Originally by: Arachidamia
So I guess the moral of the story is... fly a condor and don't feel at all guilty when your ship goes boom?
I thought the moral was... don't let your ship go boom.
Or if you do, use a damage control so that all those poor bastards can get out while you burn.
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Alexi Borizkova
Caldari
New Age Solutions
New Age Solutions Amalgamated
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Posted - 2007.05.17 06:16:00 -
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Originally by: Kern Geist
Theoretically it is possible for nano-robots to handle all the maintainece and other miscellaneous tasks on a ship. However, from all the short stories and article I've read, the races are pretty advanced but not THAT technologically advanced.
The last time they automated everything, rogue drones were born.
Go team gallente.
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Glarion Garnier
Solar Wind
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Posted - 2007.05.17 09:00:00 -
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those pictures are indeed from the very beginning of eve.
Might be fun tho to have crews as part of the ship basis.
like
Propulsion (slot)
Electronics (slot)
Shields (slot)
Armor (slot)
Guns (slot)
And you can put one crew member to each of those. Then there would be various types of crew memebrs youcan put in to those. And some more special and even rare crew units.
Say expert electornics crew +10% to signature analysis. etc.etc
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Mudkest
MetaForge
Ekliptika
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Posted - 2007.05.17 09:13:00 -
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so if you're a really cold-hearted sos you can go flying next to the ship you are about to destroy firing smartbombs to get all those escape pods that come out? :/
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DiuxDium
Free Mercenaries Union
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Posted - 2007.05.17 09:48:00 -
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Originally by: Mudkest
so if you're a really cold-hearted sos you can go flying next to the ship you are about to destroy firing smartbombs to get all those escape pods that come out? :/
Crew don't get pods.
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Aterna
Talon's Grasp
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Posted - 2007.05.17 10:20:00 -
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I think he means escape pods in the more traditional sense, not capsules, but Star Wars style pods. The kind that thud down on the nearest planet and activate a homing beacon.
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Seidr
Amarr
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Posted - 2007.05.17 12:26:00 -
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I ponder how many incalculable millions of crew been turned to invisible-corpsicles over the years.
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Renox
Gallente
Celestial Apocalypse
Insurgency
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Posted - 2007.05.17 12:41:00 -
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A few facts from the prime fiction.
Pod pilots are the only humans that can reliably use clone to escape death as the proces fries the brain and as such the proces has to only ever happen when the person is a few moments from certain death (pod is breached). The pod is the only thing that so far has proved to guarentee that this is the case.
The pod pilot replaces the entire command bridge of a ship taking away the lenghty proces of passing orders down the chain of command. The ships piloted by pod pilots are also rigged to further make use of the special abilities of the system further reducing the needed crew. This optimisation enables frigates to be flown by the pod pilot alone. Anything larger then a frigate needs more crew though, numbering the thousands when we reach battleships and God know's how many on a dread/carrier.
TheJay > grrr slow stupid garlic
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Kern Geist
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Posted - 2007.05.17 14:52:00 -
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Originally by: DiuxDium
Originally by: Mudkest
so if you're a really cold-hearted sos you can go flying next to the ship you are about to destroy firing smartbombs to get all those escape pods that come out? :/
Crew don't get pods.
Crews certainly don't get PODs, only few elite POD pilot like us have them. But there are escape boats on ships. Even today's warships have life boats on them, I don't say why EVE ship don't have any lifesaving escaping devices for the crew.
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LeMoose
The Collective
Against ALL Authorities
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Posted - 2007.05.17 15:27:00 -
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Originally by: Kern Geist
Originally by: DiuxDium
Originally by: Mudkest
so if you're a really cold-hearted sos you can go flying next to the ship you are about to destroy firing smartbombs to get all those escape pods that come out? :/
Crew don't get pods.
Crews certainly don't get PODs, only few elite POD pilot like us have them. But there are escape boats on ships. Even today's warships have life boats on them, I don't say why EVE ship don't have any lifesaving escaping devices for the crew.
i cry a tear everytime i blow up a ship for all the lifes i ended
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Caffeine Junkie
Caldari
Elite Storm Enterprises
Storm Armada
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Posted - 2007.05.17 16:24:00 -
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I am responsible for a lot of people's deaths then!
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Kern Geist
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Posted - 2007.05.19 06:23:00 -
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Edited by: Kern Geist on 19/05/2007 06:21:18
The reason for those people who refuse to believe there are crews is because they don't wanna feel the pain and sadness of the fact all these people are dying when they blow up ships or getting blown up. LOL
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JoCool
Caldari
kleptomaniacs
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Posted - 2007.05.19 08:14:00 -
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Originally by: 000Hunter000
hm.. does race matter? what i mean is would caldari serve on a caldari ship that is commanded by a Gallente?
I'm not a biggot so tbh i don't care what race my crew is as long as they do their jobs it's fine by me, if they have a problem about shooting their countrymen they can always quit.
what is the big question is.. do crew have clones? and if not, why would one want to serve on a warship thats prolly gonna get blown up? For the Amarr i can understand, they prolly use lots of slaves addicted to Vitox but the other races? Caldari? perhaps the honor of dying in battle? (sounds a bit too much like klingon to me hehe) Minmatar.. chance to take a potshot at their former amarrian masters? there willing to die for that? but Gallente? were quite the peaceloving race... why would my fellow countrymen risk their precious lives?
EDIT: almost forgot hehe, kewl pics OP
Because life on a Gallente ship is one big party!
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Kodiak31415
An Eye For An Eye
Rule of Three
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Posted - 2007.05.19 08:28:00 -
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Small note, according to the pictures, a probe is longer than a 747.
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Neuromandis
Novastorm Inc
Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate
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Posted - 2007.05.19 08:40:00 -
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Suddenly, I have been promoted to scout/podpilot/whatever to mass murderer 
I always self-destruct my ravens at the end of their insurance 
7.000 kills each???!!!!?!?!?!?!?
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Kern Geist
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Posted - 2007.05.19 08:59:00 -
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Edited by: Kern Geist on 19/05/2007 09:04:01
Edited by: Kern Geist on 19/05/2007 09:02:49
Originally by: Kodiak31415
Small note, according to the pictures, a probe is longer than a 747.
Yes, even the smallest frigate in EVE is larger than a Boeing 747-400 jet, an average cruiser in EVE is bigger than any ship we've ever built in real life, and a Titan is as long as the entire Manhattan Island of NYC. The next release of EVE would show pilot physically walk to their ship which would help us get a grasp of their sheer size.
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n0thing
Northern Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence.
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Posted - 2007.05.19 09:44:00 -
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Originally by: Neuromandis
Suddenly, I have been promoted to scout/podpilot/whatever to mass murderer
I always self-destruct my ravens at the end of their insurance
7.000 kills each???!!!!?!?!?!?!?
Well maybe they escape is standart life-capsules few secs before.
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Arkios Odymei
Incarnation of Evil
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Posted - 2007.05.21 04:26:00 -
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/me sighs...
I feel compelled to post this every time I see a poster who who refuse to accept that our ships have many people onboard... Here we go:
FFS SHIPS HAVE CREWS!!!! - As told by CCP GINGER of the EVE DEV TEAM
Also Read some EVE Chronicles.
And this short story has a nice section on the fourth page in that tells about how the pod works in a ship:
Originally by: Forsaken Ruins
Mattias focused the drone cameras on the Blackbird, inspecting the massive gashes in its hull. Judging from the metallic carnage, he estimated that sections of at least 6 decks were now exposed directly to space. Somewhere beneath where he was sitting, hundreds of crewmembers were sealing off compartments, fighting electrical fires and desperately struggling to keep his ship's vital systems functioning. How many of them died because of this, he wondered. As the captain of the ship, he was sealed inside a pod made of an ultra-strong, Jovian-manufactured alloy and neurologically connected to the Blackbird's systems. Inside of it, so long as the ship was intact, the captain was immune from harm. It was the Jovians who had introduced this remarkable innovation, and it had changed the face of naval warfare forever.
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Modern day starships are massive and incomprehensibly complex. Before the pod, there were so many points of failure between a captain's decision and the execution of his orders. The ability to create a direct neurological connection between a human mind and a ship's systems reduced those points of failure to zero. Commanding a starship was now a natural extension of the mind's will. All a captain needed was to just think about what he wanted his ship to do, and it was done.
To Mattias, it was all so impersonal. Because of the technology, a captain could skipper numerous ships over the course of a lifetime without ever meeting a single crewmember from any of them. Mattias was one of the few who made an effort to meet at least some. It seemed like the least he could do in exchange for their unquestioning faith in his abilities, and their trust in him to keep them alive.
And yes, everytime you lose a ship hundreds, if not thousands, of people die (and none of them have a clone, they are just regular Joes and not elite pod pilots like you and me.)
All you guys who believe the "No-crew-because-I-use-robotics/drones/mental powers/fedos" really need to give in and accept that we have crews.
Originally by: Marcathonas
Moros + huginn + bubble = super happy carnage time.
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whitcombe
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Posted - 2007.08.01 05:22:00 -
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Cloning is for the elite and relatively rich - aka- pod pilots :D
Now consider that each planet has billions of people, all wanting to make a living - if you ask me the cost of materials for ships and insurance includes the salary of our crew. Personally i use 'ruthless' an eve online novella as a pricing base for the average bloke. with drug slingers making acouple thousand isk per major trade
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I treat my ship like i treat my women;
i get in her once a day and take her to heaven and back
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Caithan ArcFade
Caldari
Cornerstone Unlimited
Curse Alliance
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Posted - 2007.08.01 05:44:00 -
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Wait...EVE is going to have actual Avatars?
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IceForce
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Posted - 2007.08.01 06:00:00 -
[48]
well why doo u think they put small arms in the game? so we can kill each other`s in stations
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Gariuys
Evil Strangers Inc.
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Posted - 2007.08.01 07:48:00 -
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Originally by: Neuromandis
Suddenly, I have been promoted to scout/podpilot/whatever to mass murderer
I always self-destruct my ravens at the end of their insurance
7.000 kills each???!!!!?!?!?!?!?
What you can't roleplay having your crew abandoning ship before you blow it???
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Aravel Thon
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Posted - 2007.08.01 08:01:00 -
[50]
I put on my robe and wizards hat...
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J Valkor
Blackguard Brigade
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Posted - 2007.08.01 08:06:00 -
[51]
I killed a million people today for 10 cubic meters of Quafe Ultra.
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Steini OFSI
Gallente
Minigame
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Posted - 2007.08.01 08:11:00 -
[52]
Originally by: J Valkor
I killed a million people today for 10 cubic meters of Quafe Ultra.
It is Ultra, I think it's worth few million lives as long it's not mine
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Pottsey
Enheduanni Foundation
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Posted - 2007.08.01 09:23:00 -
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Edited by: Pottsey on 01/08/2007 09:27:17
Edited by: Pottsey on 01/08/2007 09:26:24
There was a good background story in Eon about Ship crews. In short 95% of them die when a ship exploding acording to the paper work. In reality most of them survive in a long list of ways, get life insurance then go and work no another ship.
Some survive in space suits until savagers turn up, others use escape pods e.c.t
ôPod pilots are the only humans that can reliably use clone to escape death as the proces fries the brain and as such the proces has to only ever happen when the person is a few moments from certain death (pod is breached). The pod is the only thing that so far has proved to guarentee that this is the case.ö
ThatÆs the old background story. Technology has moved on Pod pilots donÆt need to be in a pod anymore to get cloned and they donÆt have to die in the processÆs. Jump clones for example let you jump between bodys.
Some famous and rich people also have clones so its not just pod pilots.
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cal nereus
Bounty Hunter - Dark Legion
Curse Alliance
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Posted - 2007.08.01 09:34:00 -
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A ship that is piloted normally requires a much larger crew than a ship piloted by one of the legendary pod-pilots (us).
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Starraker
KDM Corp
Firmus Ixion
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Posted - 2007.08.01 09:47:00 -
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Originally by: Marduk Felzhen
Haha, wouldnt it be slick if crew became a sort of new module for ships? I.E tech ii exotic dancers increases overall effectivness of ship, or like you could launch tech ii homeless people at other ships and they would cling onto them and bog down their sensors or whatever
Well I always saw it like this; your skills determine how well you can give orders to your crew, too keep everything nice and optimal.
If you know what is important about a certain system you make your crew buff it up a bit above optimal. Hence the small increase in effectiveness.
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Gabriel Karade
Quam Singulari
M. PIRE
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Posted - 2007.08.01 10:00:00 -
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Ah I loved those schematic-type diagrams of the ships when I first joined, shame they didn't keep them and update them with the new ships. Heh, plus they almost have sensible masses for the Battleships too (>2 million tonnes)...
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