Pilot Officer

[rebelappliance]

Is there a rumor for finding the Pilot officer? And on that same note, for the Veteran?

[Cory Trese]

Veteran -- on the surface of the planet during Alien

Pilot -- Spice Halls are Overflowing

[rebelappliance]

Ah, very nice. Thank you!

[phantum]

Yay I got me one!

I have not had much time to play the last couple of weeks and am trying to find out what it/he/she does exactly and what for. Unfortunately I didn't get far... you know the saying "another new day, another new captain"...

I have not had any toast messages from it/he/she to guess the advice they give.

I was an explorer with max pilot for my starting quickness starting value, flying the Aperio (a trial for explorer, hoping for a quick military retrofit while doing my quick start missions) so I had 10/21 hull/sails, with 10 pilot and >5 stealth. The enemy was 10/22 so one better than me, but I could not run away, so no big stealth bonus. So it seemed like the pilot officer was not giving me the edge there. Close in I could not ram successfully, took a while to board and did not seem to notice anything there either, so the pilot and maneuver did not appear to be increased significantly in combat. Still I had a load of artifacts 5au out from a shortage rumour so maybe the enemy greed statistic was greater than my pilot officer skill.

(Actually come to think about it the pilot officer does not look like they would suffer from a vacuum , and they were at the helm, when we got breached, and I did only pay them 3,000 to sign up and 2% of the profits on a hold full of artefacts... could the enemy pirate scum have offered them 10%?)

I remember ideas for protection from Ram, although I did get rammed in the combat, the damage was minimal, but no message from pilot officer taking credit.

I was on zero fuel use for green zones so did not see if there was a difference in fuel use, but that did not fit so much with the description anyhow.

I saw no difference carrying different amounts of water fuel, although was not game to run zero fuel to test. Looking at the photo I did not try out clothes or luxuary rations, and metals/crystals is already taken. Chemicals seemed an idea but I did not get a chance to check that.

So anyone got any toasts to report or results checking different cargo, or is Cory going to spill some beans?

Sorry I did take a good search of the forums but found nothing, and have really only limited time to play until I write another 200 pages of thesis. I was surprised there was not more discussion of pilot officers after they became a reality!