AI -Smart Ships

[Trent]

My take is that the xboat ships should be automated. I mean, all they do is go from point a to point b and back to point a. They're so small they already lack a sublight drive and if they misjump, which they must eventually, dead pilot.

Automate those and use the saved space from the pilot and lifesystem to give it another jump's worth of fuel so it can try to correct of it misjumps.

 

[far-trader]

I kind of see the "Pilot" as more a technician, running the data banks and doing maintenance. There's no reason for any ship to misjump*, as long as it's maintained and you don't run raw fuel. The X-Boat tender supplies pure fuel, and the "Pilot" supplies the maintenance. That's why you have one more than anything imo in the otu. But ymmv.

* well, in most of the rules anyway, I'm too tired to think deep or look to see if maybe some rule set does have a misjump chance even if you aren't criminally stupid