Horizons You have an SLF. Do you fly your primary ship, or the fighter?

[Mr_sukebe]

Just curious about views of people who've tried using their SLF.
When you've launched your SLF, do you fly it yourself, or leave it to your crew member?

Either way, what's the reason?

 

[Cmdr. Numa]

I fly my primary ship as long as the crew is still low rank. Not giving control to a harmless pilot, nope.

 

[Howk]

Same. I will enjoy SLF later, when my crew is ok with manoeuvers. Atm I see crew using 2 pips in each engine, system and weapons. I would prefer crew to abuse a little bit more of shield (less engine then) but nvm, I wait for crew members becoming better before giving control of main ship (2 pips for shield is the rookie mod).

Thanks for your post

 

[TinyPwny]

I miss the option "both". Not at the same time ofc but I enjoy flying a fighter in one fight, then my ship on the next. I hired an expert NPC and so far he seems to do the job well enough.

 

[CATPAIN KIRK]

It depends on the type of ship I'm about to shoot and where I am.

I needed a couple of Chemical Manipulators for G5 FSDs earlier, so shot a couple of traders in an anarchy nav beacon. Their bounties (if any) are rather low, so there's no point in using a KWS. There are no asteroids the (harmless) pilot can run into, the fighter gets around faster than the Corvette, the firepower is sufficient to kill Haulers and Lakons and it's fun to fly, so why not? Besides the Corvette has 2000 MJ of shields and since I was going for traders, there wasn't any stiff opposition.

In a Haz RES, I certainly would stick to the main ship.

 

[joshman72nd]

main ship unless hunting in a high res zone then i switch to my fighter and use it as a patrol craft speeding to one fight or another and assisting the police.

/the 2 plasma's make short work of shields and subsystems i wish i could put these guns into my c1 on the Corvette.

 

[Mercury7]

I didn't trust the AI crew at first, but then I realized they are the same as I encounter as NPCs, so let them loose. I paid for the "Expert" rank. No problems with combat.

The only problem is there is a bug with issuing commands, and after a while they stop responding, then it is difficult/impossible to get to the menu so then it requires a force-quit to fix.

 

[VR Jay Le Chardon]

When I am working on training up npc, I do so by taking her to a high res and putting her in the bridge of the corvette and me n the SLF, then picking kills for her by tagging targets. I mean she cannot really lose in a corvette and just to make sure its a high res so there will be cops and myself in the fighter backing her up.

 

[[VR] Frank_G]

Where is the "depends on situation" choice? I love to fly the fighters, but there are situations, where flying the mothership makes more sense.