Spaceships questions

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth

You don't need the full bridge crew all the time! You don't need any bridge crew actually, except when you want them to take some sort of action.

For a warship, that does probably mean you want certain stations manned in shifts (helm and sensors, at least). But there's no reason at all to fill all 10 control stations all the time. Even with the ship at battle stations, 10 bridge crew is probably more than you can actually use.

Isn't most of the listed crew number a maintenance crew - i.e. not having enough crew causes the ship to gradually lose HT and such?