OMG! FTL ITFS!

[sofa king]

15. Non-Results:

In the very next game I started, I made sure to use the Red-tail, which has a Zoltan and a Mantis. On my very first jump I ran into a slaver ship that gave me another human.

So I moved my crew accordingly, and jumped into a combat situation instead of a random event. But other strange things happened after that. I kept acquiring crewmembers, kept moving the Zoltan to the pilot's seat, and kept putting my shittiest guy on engines, and kept removing crew from systems before jumping.

By the end of Sector 1 I had a seven-man crew, and picked up the eighth on my first jump in Sector 2. No random crew losses at all.

So right now my guys are grinding up against an underpowered pirate, and eventually I will move out with a full and highly trained crew. I can also avoid or evade many random events because I do not need anymore crew, and therefore can take all low-risk options from now on.