[WIP] Crew Assignment and Rotation Program

[Digital_Trucker]

I'm starting work on an application to address some of the problems that the game has with the assignment of crewmembers when you are first assigned a boat and the lack of any crew rotation during a career.

The program is NOT meant to be another SH3Commander, but, instead, to handle some very specific problems that have come up in threads here and elsewhere. The following are the things that I've got in mind :

• Completely redoing the way names are assigned. No more John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt (unless you want them). The naming convention used would be at the users discretion and probablilities would be specified for each possibility. If you want all of your crew to have just first and last name, then you can. If you want middle initials for everyone (or just x%), you can have that too. If you want x% of your crew to have a first initial and a middle name, you can have that, too.
• Completely reassigning crew when a new boat is assigned in a career.
• Rotating a variable percentage of crew every so often when in port. The percentage and frequency of crewmembers being rotated would be specified by the user.
• Possibly extending the time in port to some realistic amount both during refits and when assigned a new boat.

What I have in mind is making the settings for this application as flexible as possible so each user can set it they way they like it. This application would be run during your in port time and would require a save and reload of the game. I don't believe you would have to leave the game in order to run it.

Any suggestions or thoughts on other things that this application might perform regarding manning the boat would be welcome. Especially helpful would be any advice on how to handle extending the in port time and re-assigning a mission based on the later date.