Crew medals
 

Have been playing SHV since launch day and have yet to find anyway to issue medals like SHIII to the crew or in addition, promote crew members. Does this appear automatically later in the game or does it not appear at all

Hey Cap'n prid

You can give medal to a crew member by going to the crew management screen and clicking one of them, some have yellow "+" where I've marked it in the picture. Press that and the crewmember get's an iron cross.

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Cool. Thanks for that!! They couldn't really have made it less clear could they??!!

The whole crew management stuff is IMHO crap. They should've kept it like in SH3. Heck, some of my guys got Iron cross 1st class before I did! :stare: And if I'd really want to nitpick, you shouldn't be able to give out IC 1st class before the crew member having IC 2nd class first. :O:

Warning, you can't UNDO this by clicking the DISCARD button so make sure you're clicking on who you really want to give it to.

Yeah, SHIII and 4's system of having the whole crew to play with, and issuing skills and medals in port after missions, was so much better than this. It's as if the whole crew of your boat consists of only your bridge crew.

Here's hoping a mod brings back the SHIIII/4 system some day. If I wanted the whole world to revolve around only top officers, I'd go watch Star Trek.

I really do miss the old school crew management. They have simplefy,d it . I mean i dont think most of the think are arcade , but if there is one thing that is hugely arcade its the so called crew management. Hell its not even crew management its a crew upgrade screen! I mean the fact that i cannot get new crew like in sh-3 is bad. I can only give them a iron cross?

I disagree that they have simplified it, if anything its a lot more complicated. The crew management screen in SHIII was beautifully simplistic.

Crew management is really a shambles in SH5. Its like they got caught between two minds as to how to do this part of the game and ended up with a sort of confused mash of upgrades, skills, abilities.

Its like they wanted to give a sub crew special abilities, akin to a mage class in a fantasy RPG.

What next? an Invulnerability special ability - take no damage for 1 hour! :-)

I would have preferred they kept recruitment and you could change your crew as in first games. And that these recruitables were mere mortals, some more talented than others, but none with ridicuolous magical powers.

I like being able to interact with the crew but they should be changeable as long as you've got the renown to spend.