Unattended POB autopilot

Unattended POB autopilot
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Babacca

Babacca

Proposal
Unattended autopilot in POBs.
Justification
An autopilot is self explanatory.
Motivation
A pilot could be able to do other stuff inside the ship than only being a pilot. That would improve a lot roleplaying, for example, to have a "jack-of-all-trades" pilot. Also, simple fun: the pilot could join the crew in celebrations instead of just sitting there stranger to others.
In POBs, when you leave the pilot seat, the ship stops. It would be handy, for lots of reasons, if the ship was on autopilot, to be able to leave the seat and do something else while the ship is reaching for its destination.
 
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+1 if done in a manner that respects droid flight computers. Like a auto-pilot module for it or something. I would even say extend it to allow stacking of waypoints to fly to in order.
 
Upvote, yes please!
As someone who love the space content and roleplay, I would love this being a possibility.
Let me chill with my crew as the autopilot fly us to the space station after the long duty mission.
 
Space here is actually really small. Unless you have it going in circles or hyperspacing, this won't last too long anyway. I don't get the need for it.
 
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You aren't flying map edge to map edge though. You'd calculate your route. 16km x 16km (might actually be 14km) is not small by any means when Y (map height) is accounted for. Sorry.
 
BubbaJoe said:
+1 if done in a manner that respects droid flight computers. Like a auto-pilot module for it or something. I would even say extend it to allow stacking of waypoints to fly to in order.
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That's beyond the scope of my proposal. What you are asking for involves re-writing whole parts of two different systems, which could introduce bugs (regression). Besides, multiple wps in sequence could be exploited by bots. I'm asking instead for something a lot simpler: just not to interrupt the already existent autopilot when the pilot leaves the seat. Simple to modify, nothing new to implement.
 
shintufelper said:
Sounds like an easy way to solo fly missions in a pob. Downvote.
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That would cover just a small percentage of the use cases. Think of mining ops, for example. Just because one or other ACE (because being less than that won't let you fly a POB at all) is misusing the feature to try and cheat some mission so easy it could simply be solved with a fighter, doesn't justify to hinder all the other use cases the feature would benefit.
 
GawlSansSper said:
Replying to the guy who didn't know what autopilot was.
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I need to make my intentions clear, because after the first comment, now people think I'm proposing something complex, like a new system. It's not, I don't intend to mess with the already functional autopilot system.
 
Nathas said:
you can have 2 toon logged in. How about having one in the pilot seat and alt+tab over every now and then?
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The feature I'm proposing is NOT about soloing, that is only ONE of the possible consequences. Sometimes you want the same character who was piloting to join the others in the ship, while it simply follows the autopilot as it would do if the character was sitting on the pilot's chair (mostly, doing nothing). A POB ship is like a flying house, with furniture and others.
 
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