::Forum - NPC Pilot skills - Star Wars Combine::

Year 12 Day 265 14:01	NPC Pilot skills
Zack Sulley	If you have a pilot skill of 5. Would hiring a pilot NPC make any difference in travel time? I noticed the Nac Comp only calculates up to 5.

Year 12 Day 265 14:23	NPC Pilot skills
Amp Thane	Pilot NPCs don't have any function yet, so they would not help your travel time. ____________ Light speed is too slow! We're going to have to go right to...Ludicrous speed. Amp Thane, Captain, BFF-1 class freighter EQUUS

Year 12 Day 265 16:20	NPC Pilot skills
Raheem Quintana	it dosn't look like you can have any skills over rank 5, so the nav comp won't show any higher. http://www.swcombine.com/rules/?Character_Creation if i'm reading this wrong someone please point me out on it. Edited By: Raheem Quintana on Year 12 Day 265 16:20 ____________

Year 12 Day 265 17:26	NPC Pilot skills
Ellias Aubec	I think Zack was expecting NPC pilots to boost your own skills. However as stated above they are not implemented at the moment and do nothing. It is theorised that they will simply allow you to replace your own skills for flying ships, rather than boost your own. ____________

Year 12 Day 265 18:12	NPC Pilot skills
Dado Lincrusta	“It is theorised that they will simply allow you to replace your own skills for flying ships, rather than boost your own. - Ellias Aubec ” This makes more sense than adding to your skill. Given that a ship's Hyper Speed has a far greater impact on travel speed than Piloting Skill does, I'm more excited by the idea of (eventually) being able to modify ships with improved engines. >:)

Year 12 Day 265 20:03	NPC Pilot skills
Tiali Bixa-Loca	Ah was expecting that NPC Pilots would eventually allow you to fly more than one type of ship (ie freighter/capital ship with fighter escorts), or act like Astromech droids and allow you to go potter in your freighter while they continue the flying

Year 12 Day 265 22:14	NPC Pilot skills
Ellias Aubec	Its possible they will be used for wingmen, but not for what droids do. The intention is that droids and NPCs will do similar but different things. Preventing travel abortion when you enter a docked entity is the droids area of expertise, and NPCs will not have that ability. Unless the devs change their mind of course. ____________

Year 12 Day 265 23:14	NPC Pilot skills
Tiali Bixa-Loca	Ah have a couple freighter pilots, and a cap ship pilot, plus even a couple barge pilots and just working on building up a squadron of Chir`Daki pilots :D

Year 12 Day 266 2:38	NPC Pilot skills
Dado Lincrusta	“Ah have a couple freighter pilots, and a cap ship pilot, plus even a couple barge pilots and just working on building up a squadron of Chir`Daki pilots :D - Tiali Bixa-Loca ” Remind me not to cross you when space combat comes out. The last thing I want to see is you and your flying squadron of Chir`Daki closing in on me. XD

Year 12 Day 266 3:06	NPC Pilot skills
Ellias Aubec	Thats ok, you just get a better ship and blow her up. Silly uglies have no chance against proper ships. ____________

Year 12 Day 266 5:34	NPC Pilot skills
Tiali Bixa-Loca	Chir`Daki are factory designed and built, not cobbled-together pieces of crap

Year 12 Day 266 5:39	NPC Pilot skills
Togan Jano	Actually, they are cobbled together from pieces of X-Wings and TIEs ...

Year 12 Day 266 5:47	NPC Pilot skills
Tiali Bixa-Loca	The X-Ceptor is cobbled together in junkyards from random pieces of damaged X-Wings & TIEs, the Chir`Daki was specially designed in a factory using X-Wing & TIE designs (may not be as good as either full version, but still vastly superior to the the 'uglies') And before mah pilots get to even sit in one of mah ships, she has to first prove herself in both an X-Wing & a TIE

Year 12 Day 266 5:52	NPC Pilot skills
Ellias Aubec	Well (besides that we're miles off topic) that won't happen. I'd like to see you get access to both to be able to do that. ____________

Year 12 Day 266 17:21	NPC Pilot skills
Lorenzas Atticus	Although we can already fly a squadron of fighters by ghost piloting* them I figured that if combat were implemented than fighters piloted by ghost pilots would be either pretty weak or have that ability removed completely. I hope that if this is the case than NPC pilots would then be able to pilot fighters and use their own skillset instead of being set at a low skill level or borrowing a fraction of the PC's skill level controlling the squadron. *using the NPC pilot assign drop down menu under ships in your inventory ____________

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