As anybody who owns or uses a ship on Batmud knows, the commands at the
helm are quite cumbersome. How about an upgrade to the interface
at the helm to be more like the Arelium guards interface. Allow
current syntax if you know all the commands, such as:
crew set guard bollux friend tarken
Also have the option to have nested menus, so if you were to just type
'crew' you would get something like this:
,-------------------------------------------------------------------.
| Command | Description |
|================================================================
| friends | List each guard's friends list. |
| list | Show the crew's roster. |
| leader | Set your preference for the crew leader. |
| train | View and spend crew training points. |
| set | Set specific characteristics of a crew member. |
| emote | Make changes to one of the crew's default emotes. |
| remove | Permanently remove a crewmember. (Captain only) |
`-------------------------------------------------------------------'

set

Select crewtype (assault, cannoneer, defense, guard, lift, sailor, or speed)
[crew set] (assault,cannoneer,defense,guard,lift,sailor,speed)>

guard

Select guard (bollux, zollux, or scotty)
[crew set guard] (bollux,zollux,scotty)>

bollux

Modify guard bollux (name, gender, post, long, friend, or clear)
[crew set guard bollux] (name,gender,post,long,friend,clear)>

friend

Adding friend to guard bollux (enter name to add to friends list)
[crew set guard bollux friend]>

tarken

Added Tarken to guard Bollux friends list.

At this point it could either exit the crew interface totally, or take you
back to the base crew menu. Of course, hitting enter on a blank line would
abort the process. Anyway thats my thoughts on it. If you know the commands,
you can enter them on 1 line as we currently do, otherwise you get dumped to
the series of nested menus that would be customized for that particular ship.

--Hair