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Starfieldgives players the ability to pilot a spaceship and take to the stars to explore far-off planets. To round out the full star-faring experience, players are also able to add crew members to their ship, giving it additional bonuses when flying and in combat.
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Players can find many different companions that can be assigned to their ship, along with additional crew members that can be hired at the local bar. After getting crew members, players will need to decide where they will work best and assign them to their stations.
How To Assign Crew Members
Crew members can beassigned and reassigned at any point through the character menu. If you want to assign or unassign crew from yourspaceship, it will need to be landed anywhereand won’t need to be on the planet the crew member is currently on. When looking at your character menu,select the bottom left section that has your ship information.
This will pull up your ship’s information with the"crew" button at the bottom of the screen.Select this to open up your crew member, which will initially listall your available crew members.You can also cyclebetween your outpostand the ship’s crews to help divide the longer list. Each menu willdisplay the crew member’s stats,helping you pick the best to assign. To assign a new crew member when you’re already at capacity, you mustfirst unassign one of your current crew.
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How To Increase Crew Capacity
Each ship has a capacity for how many crew members can be assigned at once, and this can beseen in the ship stats or shipbuilder menu next to your reactor’s stats.While that’s the basic limit for the ship you have, you canincrease the number of crew members you have.The first solution is tobuy a bigger ship that has more crew space,but other options do exist.
TheShip Command skill in the Social Skill Treeis a high-level skill but will greatly increase the number of crew members you can have on a ship. Players can also use theshipbuilder to create a ship with more Habsto house more crew or simplyreplace the one your shipcurrently has with a bigger one.All ofthese bonuses stackand can lead to you having a very large crew, with all their bonuses applying to your ship.
