It is more than simply social that needs supplementing . It is very very difficult and not for everyone . <| sep |> At least you caught it . I was driving through downtown Fort Worth TX one night after work , and as soon as it popped up on my screen , I freaked out , clicked on it , and it mother effing errored out on me ! <| sep |> No , I mean make the merchantman priority 1 on your purchase list , and purchase that part to knock out the tradersmugglingblockade running bigger ship thing . Then , after the merchantman has been purchased and we ' ve got that section of roles out of the way , we look at some smaller ships you can own and crew with 12 people so you have some role variety that does not take the manpower of a merchantman to run , so you can experience different roles via both a small crew single person capacity and also a larger capacity , and the BMM either a cutlassvariant , terrapin , or caterpillar , or a combination of those three or equivalent , should provide coverage for most roles aside from mining which you said you didn ' t like . For anything it doesn ' t explicitly cover such as repairing , you ' ll probably find easy enough access to get on someone ' s repair ship as a crewman if it piques your interest . The idea is to buy the merchantman , then once that purchase is done with , consider what would give you the most role flexibility ability to experience roles as quickly and freely as possible generally smaller crew ships , hence my cutlass recommendation . Combined with other ships having crew needs , it should cast a wide net for you to experience most if not everything barring your stated desire to avoid mining . 3