Why have all my crew members multiplied by at least 4?

Ok, that fixed it for now. I had to dismiss all on the panel and click e on the duplicates so they would appear on the panel again. I kept one of each though. If you don't hear from me in this thread again that means It's fixed for good.

I'm pretty sure they just respawn in the ship. I've tried to kill them many times with no luck.

 

Mine died several times and I always found them again in my ship.

I know how you feel, some of them are really cool.

 

Oh alright sweet! I'm glad my crew members can be taken on missions then!

 

good job

 

Yayyyyy
I can take my penguin and apex on missions

 

Had the same problem, and the dismiss and rehire trick worked for everyone... except my tailor. So now I have three tailors running around that I can't rehire or do anything with because I can't bring them with me, and because she's not part of my crew anymore, I've lost the functionality. So, word of warning, there...

Yeah, and restarting does nothing. Just three useless NPCs now.

 

There's a crew role that adds to the max fuel limit. (Not the one that improves fuel efficiency, they are two different jobs, ones called engineer and one is called mechanic).

 

Im having this problem too except there's only one of each crew on the panel, and I really don't want to lose them. Don't they disappear from your ship the moment you dismiss them?

 

Yea they do. I accidentally dismissed my very first engineer Harley that way.

 

Lava kills on ship. You're welcome.

 

You don't have to dismiss them by the way. You could just get them to follow you and then beam down to a planet, only 1 will beam down with you. When you beam back up the duplicates that you made follow you will be gone.

 

Try beaming down to the surface with the same duplicates,they should merge into one

 

Take as much of 1 duplicate as possible and warp down the planet below, they'll all merge into one. Keep on doing it until they're all gone.
I got the glitch too. Once I fixed it, I copied my storage folder to my desktop before and after I do something (Completed a mission, explored a planet, etc.)

 

If a crew member dies on a mission with you then they will respawn on your ship. There is no penalty on having them die anywhere other then mechanics can't upgrade your ship while your on a planet/mission. I think this is the error the captain above is having with his crew in that they are respawning without dying. And if you bring the chemists with you them will occasionally give you a boost for keeping them alive, and medics health.

 

To get rid of the clones just dismiss everyone then kill the clones with molotov's its the best fun you'll have killing clones

 

Hadn't seen this in a while. One of my stylists recently cloned themselves, and I had to lock the duplicate in a poison bubble. You can tell which ones are "real" by whether or not their outfit changes when you command it.

The bug used to be worse back in the day, in the old days of EK my homeworld gate guard was so lonely he cloned himself from one to 65-125. They all said the exact thing too... it was like Gary from Fallout. They were spreading rapidly and I had to turn the room into a lava aquarium. Poor Gary army.

 

Bit late response on my part, but no. It doesn't. Not where crew members are concerned anyways. They respawn on you at the moment of death. Will be trying these other options though.

 

Gary? Gary! Gaaaaryyyy... Ga-ry! Ga-ry! Ga-ry!

 

They only respawn if they're active crew. Box off a single set, dismiss all, kill all the extras with lava/poison and rehire the group you set aside. Cakewalk.