posted on May 29th, 2011, 8:18 pm
the idea of recrewing in the field is useful for an olympic class. couple problems i have though:
crew isnt a huge issue in fleetops a lot of the time, in stock and a1 crew was like another health bar cos your redshirts died so fast. in fleetops its not often you need to recrew ships. only when facing stuff like blue beam assims.
with a buildable ship this makes sense, as you only build it when the enemy is fielding something that hurts your crew directly. but as a warpin, it isnt so good. as a recrewing thing would be highly situational and warpin is random by nature. so you'd need to be super duper lucky for a hospital warpin to come just when u need it.
maybe some other bonuses could be arranged for hospital ships. such as if a hospital ship is anywhere within transporter range, it prevents ships losing crew (or slows the crew loss per second) when life support is disabled/destroyed. also weapons that are designed to attack crew could have reduced effectiveness if a hospital ship is nearby. so blue beam would take less crew per second maybe. or boarding actions against federation ships near to hospitals could be less effective, so your crew lasts longer against boarding parties as the injured crewmembers can be healed quicker and get back to defending the ship.
