How do you increase crew capacity?

[100thMonkey]

I want to add an engine to the default light cruiser design. But that adds +5 to the crew requirements. Which brings it above the limit (165/162).

A crew systems would add to the crew capacity (the design has 2 already), but it doesn't appear in the available components list!?!

The only other module I see in the available components that would add to the crew capacity is the Basic Command Center (+15). But a design can only have one, so I can't add another one.

Two questions then:

• Does that mean that other than upgrading to a better crew system component, there's no way to increase a design crew capacity?

• Is it normal that the crew systems component doesn't appear in the available components even though the design has 2 already?

[Shogouki]

Yeah that is kind of odd. Do you have your components filtered in a way that those modules are hidden?

[pauls2271]

No, your crew systems should show up in the top left list as an available component. Do you have it the filter set to show all available components?

One of the first things I do is add more crew onto Mining stations, Starports and Research stations to make it harder for the pirates to invade.

[Miravlix]

Star Marines is a crew module according to the category, but it doesn't provide crew.

Upgrade replaces crew modules with Star Marines and latest only show star marines.

It's not the only case of category problems resulting in both upgraded and latest view being borked.

[100thMonkey]

Very strange!!! This morning, the basic crew systems component IS in the list of available components, even after clicking on the upgrade button. And I didn't change the filter!?! Maybe the filter was reset by closing the game and restarting it this morning. I remember that I had changed the filter yesterday, at some point, and frankly, I'm not sure how it was set when I wasn't seeing the crew systems component. Normally, I would have checked the filter, but maybe I didn't. Quite possible that was the problem...

The basic crew systems component was replaced again by a few star marine barracks, which still resulted in insufficient crew capacity, like yesterday. But this time I was able to replace the barracks with the crew systems.

I'll still post a bug report for the marine barracks, even if it has already been reported.

[zgrssd]

If you ever have behavior that seems wrong (or that infact other people do not have), close the game, steam verify scan and see if it persists.

[Miravlix]

If you ever have behavior that seems wrong (or that infact other people do not have), close the game, steam verify scan and see if it persists.

Are you for real? This is tin foil hat territory advice. Storage technology don't randomly store data badly. It would require losing power as the game files is written to disk and program like steam actually KNOWS that happened and self verify, because the last thing it write to disk is that it finished writing to disk, so if the flag for did I finish is missing it verify.

[zgrssd]

If you ever have behavior that seems wrong (or that infact other people do not have), close the game, steam verify scan and see if it persists.

Are you for real? This is tin foil hat territory advice. Storage technology don't randomly store data badly. It would require losing power as the game files is written to disk and program like steam actually KNOWS that happened and self verify, because the last thing it write to disk is that it finished writing to disk, so if the flag for did I finish is missing it verify.

Experience taught me that - for whatever reason - the gamefiles of DW2 get damaged.
A LOT.

Like, to a degree where it should be it's own bug.

[Emperor0Akim]

Experience taught me that - for whatever reason - the gamefiles of DW2 get damaged.
A LOT.

Like, to a degree where it should be it's own bug.

And I thought it was just my modding.

[zgrssd]

Experience taught me that - for whatever reason - the gamefiles of DW2 get damaged.
A LOT.

Like, to a degree where it should be it's own bug.

And I thought it was just my modding.

Well, that would certainly add to the count. As modded files are detected like damaged ones.

But nope, it happens. A LOT. Even in pure vanilla installations like mine.