Some questions about bots - context menu for orders

[rocy1]

I have some questions about bots:

1) How does issuing orders work? From what I see, bots just carry out the order, but there is no menu of their choice. For example, as I choose system indicates for jumps, the bots implement it, but I do not see the context menu.
2) Can I make order for example fly for this target?
3) Is the context menu of orders planned as in Star Trek Bridge Crew?
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4) Why does the pilot automatically fly somewhere after taking up the position?
5) Do I have to be at the helmsman position to have a view of the ship during steering after the system? In general, sitting in the captain's position will not give you any menu with orders.

[obvious]

1) I don't know what you mean by "context menu"? You can see the bot settings when you press tab -> bots and then click the categories there. You can alter them too.
2) yes. By plotting a course your Pibot will align to the system that is next on the plottes course. By selecting an enemy as target (keep space bar pressed and click enemy name in the upper right corner) your pibot will fly you into combat range to your target of choice.
4) that is a weird thing but it can be fixed with proper bot settings afaik.
5) You give your captain orders via the Z button. You can also add custom ones and attach them to bot behavior. It wil require you to program your bots a bit, which is fun. The captain's chair makes you see the system numbers if you click space so you see if the ship is aligned. But nothing else.

[rocy1]

Originally posted by obvious:

1) I don't know what you mean by "context menu"? You can see the bot settings when you press tab -> bots and then click the categories there. You can alter them too.

context menu is order to choose with a cycle menu as in Star Trek Bridge Crew.
Eg. I click on fly bot and get menu with orders to choose as: 1) fly here 2) hyperjump to ... 3) stay in place etc.
There is some place with ready orders / programs to download and use in game?

[obvious]

The game is a more complex than Star Trek Bridge Crew, so those wheels would not translate so well to pulsar, imho. Also due to immersion issues.
Don't be intimidated though. It takes 3 minutes to set up the commands (and corresponding bot behavior) of pibot only aligning when getting the custom command "Align ship" and engineer to only jump when you give the custom order "jump!" or whatever the words of your choice are.
There actually is a place where you can download preset AI profiles and ask people for more lengthy advice on how to tweak your bots.
Join the inofficial discord here: https://discord.gg/rsFas23
Go to the "welcome" channel to accept terms of service with thumbs-up reaction and then look at the AI channel for advice and files.