I think salary falls under the toilet category. Just because there is not ingame toilet does not mean that there are no toilets in the EVE universe.
Just because you don't have a button that says 'Pay Crew' does not mean your crew is unpaid.

I admire your interest into writing about the world we spend so much time in. As many before have stated whether distanced or personal all pod pilots have crews both large and small. this is supported by lore. and in many of the chronicles.
this is a link to a piece I wrote awhile back about one of my RP toons thoughts and interactions with pod ship crews.
http://thestormrageclan.blogspot.com/2011/06/ship-captain-crew.html
fly safe

I point all those looking for some interesting stories to an old corp mates blog - https://mikeazariah.wordpress.com/He writes as a capsuleer who DOES pay attention to his crew, plus his stories are pretty good. :)

In short, why do they want to apply for crews? I hvnt share any isk with them, or the salary is already included in the ship price?

That background interferes with the text.

Really enjoyed rereading these, he's really good.

I wish there was something similar in EvE, but if they add crews they totally have to add Ship Interiors and a "Board" option when you right click.
That's an idea to recycle Incarna...

Honestly, I think all the discussion over the lore/gameplay differences highlight the real problem with Eve backstory. Because the game is meant to be literal, it results in things that make no sense and IMO take the fun out of the universe.

Any time anything happens it's because capsuleer this and capsuleer that. Even half the heads of state, if I remember, are capsuleers often for little discernable reason. Everything is ridiculously focused on the guys you play as, which makes sense in a game, but not in a story.

If I remember, travel times across the cluster are meant to be as in game - that's an hour or less from a random hisec to Jita. Where's the majesty of unexplored space if we're actually meant to believe we can hop around anywhere in the galaxy in an hour or two?

Mission running as people have said makes no sense. Rather that 'that's just gameplay', it's canon that, yes, billions do die to mission runners every hour because :GRIMDARK:.

And so on. The scope of a game is always going to be more limited than that of its setting, because one is limited by what realistically works for a fun game and the other is limited by imagination. But when you make the scope of the game almost 100% representative of its entire setting, you limit the setting massively. And now this is so ingrained that people are doubting the existence of crews because their overview isn't spammed with a million escape pods every time they get popped. And those skyscrapers in Mass Effect? Nope, nobody can go inside lorewise because Shepard can't, duh.

And now this is so ingrained that people are doubting the existence of crews because their overview isn't spammed with a million escape pods every time they get popped. .

Any time anything happens it's because capsuleer this and capsuleer that. Even half the heads of state, if I remember, are capsuleers often for little discernable reason. Everything is ridiculously focused on the guys you play as, which makes sense in a game, but not in a story.

Do we agree on that capsuleers CAN have children?

We have crews?

Oh I guess we do

I don't see why, though - I always pictured Capsuleer ships being like the Mothership in "Homeworld"

Well you will have to place that setting in the future then, because correct me if I'm wrong, we capsuleers haven't been around the cluster more than, like 10 or 15 years? So hardly any capsuleer's children has had any time to outgrow their father/mother.

Well you will have to place that setting in the future then, because correct me if I'm wrong, we capsuleers haven't been around the cluster more than, like 10 or 15 years? So hardly any capsuleer's children has had any time to outgrow their father/mother.