If I attack an enemy without the means to do so it would be nice to have a crewman pilot the cannon

[delicate geyser]

My character already yells "Fire!". Would be nice to be able to assign roles to my crew so when I do certain actions they'll auto main the station or do the task i.e. if I rightclick my boatt and press repair but don't have the kits on me whatever crew I assigned to repair duties will do it instead. If I'm not on the cannon and click on an enemy whatever crewman I assigned will man the crew.

I know you can already assign them but if for whatever reason you need them to do something else or you kick them off you have to talk to them or go through the UI which takes time. Would be nice to just assign a default behavior to make things more steamlined. It's just bad design to force players to go between menus constantly to do things constantly when combat is involved.

[patent finch]

forcing players to go between menus constantly in combat is already a core mechanic of all PvM and PvP combat. This is not new. And quite frankly Sailing is much easier to manage than any other multi-menu combat content in the game with the super convenient sailing combat interface that only requires 2 clicks to assign a crewmate to something...

The one thing I think is a bit odd is that if you assign a crewmate to repair, they should auto repair whenever your ship gets below the threshold of whatever repair kit is in your cargo hold, having to command them to use a repair kit every time you need it is a bit annoying, but I also see how it resembles normal "eating food" mechanics.