Crew

There is several types of crew members available in CST. The different types of crew members can be hired at different rates. Each crew member that wants to get hired needs a bed in a crew room. Depending on the size of the ship and the number of crew members you want to hire, you might need more than one crew room.

You only pay for crew member salaries if you have passengers on board. A player can do all crew members work themselves except for the the work of the engineers. You can find the Crew tab in Manage.

Captain
One captain is required per ship as part of autopilot. The captain sails the ship during the day. You can hire a captain at a rate of $1,000/day ingame money.

Officer
A certain number of additional officers are also required per ship as part of autopilot. The number of these officers depends on the type of ship. These officers do officers type things. You can hire an officer at a rate of $500/day ingame money.

Navigator
One navigator is required per ship as part of autopilot. The navigator gives the captain a break overnight and take over sailing the ship. You can hire a navigator at a rate of $750/day ingame money.

Note: you can manually sail a ship in Drive Ship mode with or without the officers on board. If you have autopilot activated, deactivate autopilot in Routes and hit Drive Ship mode to manually sail. Remember to reactivate it if you want the officers to take over again. And if you decide to only manually sail, you do not need to hire any of the autopilot crew.

Housekeeper
Housekeepers make beds after passengers made them messy while sleeping. They need a housekeeping closet each to function. One housekeeper can take care of approx. 20-25 rooms per day depending on the layout. You can hire a housekeeper at a rate of $100/day ingame money.

Note: you can manually make beds yourself once they are messed up by going into edit mode and clicking on a bed.

Engineer
If you decide to have a nuclear reactor you need to hire 2 engineers per reactor to make them operational. The engineers usually stay at the reactor but on occasion they may not be actually visually at the reactor. Note that the reactors work as long as the engineers are on board. You can hire one engineer at a rate of $500/day ingame money.