Surprised to see this bumped again.
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Originally Posted by paulburnett71
I was just curious what is the point of civilians?
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Mostly diplomacy. Many big diplomatic assignment takes a chef, entertianer, bartender, plus a diplomat and security. If you want to finish the two chains in the ship's lounge (on the development track), you'll need a couple chefs and bartenders for those. Diplomats and advisors are also used in Quell Civil Unrest (military track).
Refugees also count as civilians. They're sort of like prisoners in that you can exchange them (through Asylum missions) for useful duty officers.
Some chefs and bartenders also enable new food and drink items in your replicator, but unless you're addicted to tribble breeding that's more annoying than anything, since it makes you scroll down through an even longer list of junk to get to the commodities.