My annoying bridge crew

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Originally Posted by flag4

important qualifications should be assigned in first place before others.
sometimes I've noticed secondary qualifications have little or no affect.

The ranking of the qualifications makes no difference for officers: all three are equally valid. The green bar over a compartment is the only thing that matters: an officer with Repair as his 3rd qual moves the bar just as much as an officer with Rep as his 1st qual, all things being equal.

For Petty Officers: Only the top one counts; the rest are eye candy.

Sailors: it is all eye candy. (In fact, you can dismiss all of your sailors and still run your boat.)

However:

The Helmsman qualification works for no one. The Medic qualification never healed anyone, though some fatigue models use it to speed recovery of a crew at rest. The Radio/Sonar qual is useless for officers.