RFE: Vehicle Crew support.

[Saklad5]

At some point MekHQ needs the ability to manage the crew, and support crew. For example the Swiftran has a crew of 2, and 20 Seats.

But the fluff for the unit means it should be 2 Flight Crew to Fly, 10 Paramedics to operate the equipment, and 10 spare seats,..

This should be looked at in relation to Large Craft as well. To better capture the role of the crew and the capacity of the unit to move them.

MOD NOTE - This is the original issue from the MML tracker.

According to page 132 of the sixth printing of TechManual, designers may designate higher crew requirements than the minimum for Support Vehicles so long as additional seating is provided.

This is particularly relevant when working with Paramedic Equipment, which needs paramedics despite not raising crew minimums.

I recommend using the same interface elements as Small/Large Craft where possible, as this works almost identically.

[pavelbraginskiy]

Maybe I'm not understanding what you're asking for with this RFE, but support vehicles have this interface in their Structure tab for setting additional crew capacity:

[Saklad5]

That adds extra seating and quarters, but it doesn't provide a way to specify whether it is for crew or passengers. Contrast with Large Craft, which have this interface:

You can see that the number of crew is independently configurable.

[pavelbraginskiy]

There's no difference between a crew seat and a passenger seat for support vehicles. Whether a seat is intended for crew or passengers is purely fluff.

[Saklad5]

Not in MegaMek.

[pavelbraginskiy]

If something in MM or MHQ requires extra crew space/extra passenger space that you can't add with this interface, that's a bug in MM/MHQ.

The Battletech construction rules don't have this distinction for support vehicles.

Consider the Swiftran: Its lore states that it has 10 seats for medic and 10 seats for passengers, but the actual stat section of the TRO just lists "20 passenger seats".

[Saklad5]

I literally provided a page reference for where it says you may add more crew.

[Saklad5]

A Support Vehicle’s crew must be equal to (or, at the designer’s option, greater than) the sum of its minimum crew requirements (including any supplemental crew such as officers and those needed to man special equipment such as weapons, communications, kitchens and MASH theaters).

[pavelbraginskiy]

You add more crew by typing a number other than 0 into the boxes labelled Extra Crew Seats which are already in MML.

[Saklad5]

That only applies to Combat Vehicles.

[pavelbraginskiy]

Combat Vehicles have a different box labelled Extra Combat Seats located in their Chassis section, here: