What affects auto trader/miner's max gate distance

[flacwby]

I have a level 3 captain and my miner's max gate distance is 2. Yet I have another level 3 captain and the max gate distance is 3? What affects the gate distance ability?

Also do we have any clarification on the new 2.0 beta HF 2's new mining modes? Autominer, Advanced Autominer and Expert Autominer?

[Old_Wolf]

Look at all the stats of the pilot. There has to be some difference between the two. I'm not sure what the combination is, but it should be there in the stats. Having autominers and autotraders that are limited on the distance they can travel by their level is quite the nerf, in my opinion. I'm postulating that if Egosoft makes this change to them, they need to enable using the seminars so we can have some way to level the pilots without having to spend hundreds of game hours to get them to a point where they are usable.

[Old_Wolf]

It may also depend on the crew. I'm not sure.

[DrSuperGood]

Captain skill. Each star has 3 levels for a total of 15 levels and each level is like +2 or so range on top of a base.

[flacwby]

I forgot about the individual star system. I was just considering the overall, but everyone's correct that those 5 specific skills are different in this case. However it does look like 2.0 makes some serious changes to the effects of skills (which I'm ok with) but agree that we really need some alternate ways to improve skills other than just waiting.