[Gerald]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

You can assign qualifications to any crewman in Commander, including all the non CO/PO sailors. It doesn't have any effect on gameplay, meaning that a sailor "qualified" in repair is not worth more in terms of compartment efficiency than one who isn't, all other things being equal. But he will still have the qualification icon in the game's crew management screens. It's useful if you want to attempt some kind of 'realistic' crew management with, for instance, separate Seamen's and Technical divisions with duties assigned accordingly. If you have the icons on them in the game it's easy to see who is part of which division and what their primary duties are.

I played around with it in my last career and liked it, this time around I actually made a separate crew list and assigned more realistic "ranks" to all the men based on their in-game rank + their area of specialty. So the highest ranking PO who is qualifed for radio/sonar is the Oberfunkmaat, the highest ranking POs with Maschinist quals are the Diesel and Elektro Obermaschinists, the highest ranking PO in the Seamen's division is the Oberbootsmann, etc. The NO is my IIIWO and Obersteuermann and I don't count him as a commissioned officer even though the game considers him to be one.

I'm not sure how well this will play out when it comes to promotions, transfers, and replacements, but I'm only on my second combat patrol so I haven't crossed that bridge yet.

Then you'll have to speed up a little now, but I did anyways response to a question, thank you,