Sailors need to be more specialized to enable multiple playstyles and reward creativity.

As it is now, there are pretty much standard playstyls to every BB: 4 rep, 4 engi, scout, 2 gunners, 2 aa gunners, bo.

There is no place for restorer. Part of this problem is the fact that this setup caps nearly every ability, the exceptions being the upcapped overheat speed and the extremely hard to cap repair speed.

 I suggest that the sailors bleed less into other sailors role. For example, the engineer can have 1000+ repair or restore ability at level 120 I believe. This ought to be rectified so that there is no standard setup. Furthermore, I am a firm believer in the fact that caps on stats dilute gameplay.

This happens because players will always find the minimum requires to max as many of these caps. For the sake of diversity, the caps ought to be significantly increased or removed. Another way to fix this is to increase the amount of skill required to cap it. Restorers are regarded as nearly useless, as the stat caps with a normal crew at around level 90ish. The effect is that a restorer is completely useless. Doubling the skill required to get 900 SD would definitely encourage the use of non-standard crews.

SDE totes creativity as one of NF's strong points, but while there are a myriad of classes, many of them are metagame'd out of gameplay and as a result, the game stagnates.