FTL: Faster Than Light – Impact of Skillful Crew Members

Yes, you will be able to gain new crew members. When you get a crew from an event, e.g., an interface will appear at the end of the event showing you every new crew member + the new guy (who will helpfully be flagged as "new"). You then have to chose to dismiss a member since you are over the limit. If you see crew for sale in a store, you can go into your ship screen and dismiss a member there so that you can buy a new one.

In the comments, ChargingPun confirms that when you are on the "crew dismissal" screen, you can still mouse over crew members to see their skills.

Also please note that as of patch 1.5.4/the recent add on, potential crew you encounter can come with skills which have gained experience. It is possible to get a crew with max [insert skill]. This is tremendously useful, as it both allows one to more easily make up for later-sector mistakes as well as maybe find someone with decent shields skill (heh).

if anyone is still looking at this

"Christoph Z" always simplifies to Chriz, and Frederick drops the k at the end without even adding a period. I also recently got a crewmember named Wai-Shing which simplifies to WaiShing. I can't actually put "-" in crew names. I don't know any other names that do this yet

Other than those exceptions it appears that any name either over 7 characters or beyond 50-55 (probably 53) pixel width will be abbreviated to that point. "iiiiiiiiiiiiiLL" doesn't get abbreviated, it's 53 pixels wide in-game, but 15 characters long, which is the max the game allows "iiiiiiiiiiiiLLL" however, gets its last L truncated and replaced with a period because it goes over 53(?) pixels width.

"111111111111111" gets truncated to the eighth 1 because adding a ninth 1 would push the pixel width to 54. "11111111i", which is 53 pixels wide exactly, does not get truncated.

Names with two or more parts will always be simplified to show the last name only, unless the last name doesn't meet the above criteria of under 7 under 53px. If this happens, the First name will be shown instead

The above values are mostly guesses since I don't have access to the game code, but it usually works out

It would be nice if anyone could find other exceptions to the naming rule besides Chriz and Frederic

I'm about to go to bed, but I found that names with one or two letters in the front such as "CY Heng" "Zz Top" or "xY iiiiiiiiiiii" (oddly enough this width ends up being 57, perhaps the space doesn't count?) will not truncate as long as the length of the entire name meets the length criteria. I will look into this tomorrow.

A couple of abnormalities before I go: "x iiiiiiiiiiiiY" and "VV iiiiiiiiii" don't get truncated. in the first example, if x is replaced with certain letters of the same width, the name will get truncated, but otherwise stays the same. for the second, the length is 55 pixels, and yet it doesn't get truncated.