Talk:Strategy/@comment-26715739-20150721182129

Something to try...

I just had a free engineer pop up less than 24 hours after using my previous free engineer. I've never had that happen before - 30 hours is about the quickest I've ever seen before.

This was something of a special situation though - as I'd originally used that free engineer in the morning yesterday, but due to an accidental restore (and failure to save in between) I ended up using them again yesterday evening.

So the original use was about 30 hours ago.

So it may be possible to "trick" the timer/counter on issuing of free crew by using them as soon as you get them, then doing a restore to get them back, then using them before they'd actually get used otherwise.

Of course, it might just be a different part of the algorithm kicking in - I did use all 3 crew at once as well, so that might also have something to do with it.

Anyway, one more data point...