where to find pilots?

[W33dCutt3r]

i have the weird issue that i cant seem to find any pilots.... only crewman around in all stations. anyone else same issue?

[DizzieDawgie]

Why would a station need a pilot? A crewman is just a pilot you haven't promoted yet. Just hire a crewman and give them some piloting seminars.

[Harrison]

Originally posted by W33dCutt3r:

i have the weird issue that i cant seem to find any pilots.... only crewman around in all stations. anyone else same issue?

There are no dedicated pilots, you assign those crewmen to any position on a ship.

[W33dCutt3r]

ah cool thanks

[Ydyp]

Originally posted by Bad Luck:

oh I need pilots because they all have like 0 skill in everything so it's okay if they die should the station explode. Why lose good engineers?

Getting the first star is pretty fast for even a crew that you hire with 0 in piloting. And the second star can be reached by just spending some money and buy 1 star seminars, but then the pain starts to get them from 2 to 3 stars, as that process is painfully slow if you do not use seminars and they are hard to come by the 2 star seminars to go from 2 to 3 stars.

Only the piloting skill though has this problem, as raising management skill is very easy, just let the pilot do trades for you and before you know it you got a 3 star manager without even using the seminars.

Same for service crew, they gain skills on a decent level. But even here I would give you the tip if you start out fill up the service crew on your small ship (leave one spot open for passenger transport). Even if the service crew doesn't do anything in a S ship, but then they will be already better trained once you move to M ships.