Re: [FT] Fighters - some thoughts

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard and Emily Bell" <rlbell@sympatico.ca>
> Without FTL
> communications, remotely piloting  something that has to strike a
dodging
> target, or jink away from incoming fire is impossible, and if your
onboard
> systems can handle those, automatically, why bother with remote
flying.
>

Right. Still, at some level there must be human input, and even if it's
a
program "Go there, kill that ship, accept risk level X" before take off.
Low-level tactical decisions are up to the local electronics. Indeed,
this
is even today true of piloted fly-by-wire planes. Control of the
steering
surfaces is in the hand of the on-board computer, not the pilot.

And even with long-range automatic fighters (in the FT scale), some
human
input during flight will be likely, e.g.to redirect fighters to new
targets - indeed pretty much the decisions a player takes in the game.

Greetings