Originally by: Kravick Drasari

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Originally by: Verone

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There's a lot of inconsistency with regards to PF and ship crews, to be honest. Original prime fiction blueprints of most of the base hulls were released, citing battleship crews in the thousands, up to 7000, as shown below :

Megathron
Scorpion
Tempest
Dominix
Moa
Maller
Iteron
Badger
Incursus
Rifter


However the Eve novel (The Empyrean Age) differs, with the mention of a Nyx class crewed by only 2800 (when the ship is roughly 10x the size of the Megathron in dimension in length and mass alone, regardless of any form of hangar crew for the prep and release of fighters). Take into account the crewing requirements in those images for a Badger or Iteron, and things are reinforced even more.

I'd probably estimate at a guess, given the size of the vessels that a carrier may crew 15-18,000, with a dread crewing slighty less due to it's lack of need for fighter support crews and pilots. The next step up would be the mothership classes, probably in the region of 25-30,000 crewmen, more fighters more onboard control more maintenance, more everything basically.

As for titans, it's anyones guess as to how many people would be required to crew one, let alone live on board one full time. Considering there's a chronicle that claims they're so vast they can disrupt the tidal forces on a planet if left in orbit, I'd hazard a guess at anything up and over 100,000.

It would actually be nice to have some form of concrete statistics as part of ship descriptions to be honest, but those are yet to come.

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It is possible that these ship crew manifests are for non capsule fitted ships. As I understand it, not all ships in the EVE universe are piloted by capsuleers.

I read in one of the EVE chronicles that the ships that are equipped with pod technology have drastically reduced crew requirements. Has something to do with the command systems within the ship being directly linked to the pilot inside the pod. This system basically replaces the old system of a captain telling the helmsmen to turn 90 degrees to the left and then calling down to the engine room and telling the engineers down there to drop speed by 50% so they can turn faster. Since all of this can now be controlled remotely and electronically by one person via being physically linked to all these systems while inside of a pod there would be no reason to even have those crew members present any more. The only need for crew then at this point is for maintenance, loading/unloading of ammunition, and various other things that can't be controlled by a computer system. Also, cargo in your cargo hold doesn't magically get there by itself

Of course I could be completely wrong on this subject as I read that EVE chronicle ages ago and I've likely forgotten most of the details.

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Originally by: Nomakai Delateriel

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Originally by: Faraelle Brightman

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It's pretty widely agreed that frigates can be crewed by a single person, maybe two if a capsuleer isn't running it.

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It's IMHO not "pretty widely agreed" that a non-capsuler frigate can be pilot with 1-2 people.
The "War Drones On" chronicle states

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"It didnÆt take them that long - they simply upgraded their fighters a bit, added some shields and extra weapons and called the new vessels frigates. Some extra crew was also needed at first, but then the Caldari obtained capsule technology from the Jovians some years later and could again reduce the crew to one on most frigates.

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As far as I understand it that means that a capsule controlled frigate means 1-2 crewmen (one of them in a pod). Non-capsule controlled frigates need more than that.
While the caldari-gallente war was 200 years ago that was after 300 years of warp-drive (and over 500 years of intestellar travel) so space-faring and automation technology were fairly mature at the time of the war (with the exception that direct mind-machine interfacing hadn't been developed. Pod-technology that is).

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