Workers

Workers are laborers that you assign to various places, such as your capitol, mines, or research labs. Typically they are either humans from your crew, which you get by successfully inviting friends, or droids which you build at the droid factory.

Each building is allowed one worker at level 0, and then another 1 worker for every 3 levels. So for instance a level 3 Ore Mine can have 2 workers, a level 6 Ore Mine can have 3, and so on.

Humans are preferable to droids, as they are free (all it takes is an invite) and more productive. However if you don't have any friends who will accept your invites, droids at least enable you to increase your production.

Note

Human players only count as crew if they are new players. If they already play Starfleet Commander you will not get crew points for them joining, nor will you receive them as a Worker.

You may transport Human Workers or Droids to new colonies or when abandoning a planet through the use of the Charon Class Transport.

Use

There are four possible droids that can be made in the Factory. The Mine Droid, the Crew Droid, the Build Droid, and the Lab Droid. Each droid increases production, build time, or research time by 2% respectively, except for the crew droid, which instead adds a crew point to your current planet which can be used for missions. Check out the Tech page for information on how many crew points are needed per mission. As stated above, human workers are preferred since they increase anything by 4%, and add 3 crew points to your total. It is recommended that if you are short on human workers you should construct some androids to take advantage of their increase in mine/building/lab performance.