I understand that a droid will continue to pilot a ship if I enter another entity docked on the ship, but will it continue its preset flight path if I decide to undock in the new entity?
If you are in a squadron of fighters You can lead 12 ships using the npc ships function [where you set ships as NPC Controlled through the inventory], there is no need for NPC fighter pilots or droid pilots,
NPC fighter pilots currently have no coded purpose.
Droid pilots allow you to enter a ship or vehicle in your hangar or docking bay without causing the halt of travel of the carrier vessel, as no stock fighters have hangar or docking bays, this stops their need.
So if I jump in one ship the other 11 will follow and I don't need to place pilot NPCs on the ships to fly them. The ships will just follow me with the NPC setting?