Pilot Power

Everything.

@Stayontarget2016
Khdelboy is correct: everything affects crew power, but it doesn't affect crew power in the exact same way that it affects the toon itself, so something that makes you go up 1000 gp doesn't necessarily (in fact, it might not ever) cause you to go up exactly 1000 in crew power for your ship. Some things affect the ship more than they affect the character and some affect the character more than the ship.

There's actually a formula that was datamined and posted on reddit, but I can't remember the details. If it's important to you to know exactly how each thing affects crew power, you can search it out on google. .But if you just want to know which things help? You already got the answer: It's all of them, Katie.

your pilot GP (which is calculated from level, gear, abilities, zetas, relic level and mods) boosts the ship itself,

but note you can't affect how it scales your ship i. e the ship's HP/speed/dmg etc.
so no matter how you mod your pilot, what only matters is overall GP (6 dot mod, lvl15 is best, doesn't matter if offense or HP mod )

This will help you out: https://apps.crouchingrancor.com/
But as already said twice: Literally everything counts.

Mod color is the only thing that doesn't affect ship stats, but does affect GP. A gold 5*, level 15 mod is the same as a grey one.

"Kyno;c-2159665" wrote:

"Stayontarget2016;c-2159401" wrote:
Ill google the answer. Im not putting a zeta on some toons that will never see action

abilities have an effect on ship speed, there are times where having the zeta (+1 ships speed) can be helpful.

A zeta is not guaranteed to add +1 speed. It may put you over the threshold for the next point of speed or it may not.

Let's put it this way. ALL speed additions come from crew power, not ship upgrades.

Ship speeds gets at least + 60 for the vast majority of ships, including CapShips.

Is a zeta worth 1/60th of the total crew power? As it turns out, it's very very close.

Therefore 1 zeta gets you +1 speed except in a few corner cases. In those corner cases when you're very, very close to your next +1 and you're zeta'ing the pilot of a particularly fast ship, it's possible to get +2 from a single zeta. On the other hand, with slower ships if you're particularly far away from the next +1 speed it's theoretically possible to get +0.

That said, if you get +0 from a zeta, you've put yourself incredibly close to the next plus one speed and upgrading a couple mods to 6-Dot or adding just a single gear piece should put you over the top.

So... is it worth it to zeta a pilot just for ship speed?

As it turns out, head to head matchups with Negotiator can easily turn on which Nego gets to AoE first (because they get assists from their ships while Dazing the other side which then can't assist the enemy Nego and thus severely limits opposing damage). Sure, it's possible to come back from going 2nd, but you're much better off going first. So taking GK all the way to r7 and adding the zeta and giving him a full complement of 6-Dot mods is sure as heck worth it because it's not uncommon for your victory to turn on your Nego's ship speed.

On the other hand, if your pilot is g12 and you're not interested in that pilot's zeta, there's PLENTY of room for speed improvement without dropping the zeta.

In general, I find CapShips you plan to run maxed in head-to-head matches are worth a zeta that doesn't help you in squad much (Holdo, for instance). Other ships, especially reinforcements and/or ships that can gain TurnMeter aren't worth a zeta strictly for ship performance.

And, yes, I know that it affects more than speed, but turn order is still more important than 3% more health & protection Whatever you get from adding a zeta, I seriously doubt it's a full 3%.

Ill google the answer. Im not putting a zeta on some toons that will never see action

"chionophile;c-2159491" wrote:
Mod color is the only thing that doesn't affect ship stats, but does affect GP. A gold 5*, level 15 mod is the same as a grey one.

I believe that was one true but not anymore...

Actually now that I look, I think you're right. Not sure where I got that stuck in my head

"Stayontarget2016;c-2159401" wrote:
Ill google the answer. Im not putting a zeta on some toons that will never see action

abilities have an effect on ship speed, there are times where having the zeta (+1 ships speed) can be helpful.