If I'm piloting a multi-crewed ship and I get disconnected, does an AI replacement maintain control and return to the hangar? Or, as my buddy, can he take control from the AI and continue the mission?asked by Alpha Maker

So continuing on what I said before, one of the things we talked about is your friend giving you permission to fly. So there's a possibility that someone could get on your ship that you don't want to fly it. So partially it's dependent on whether they let you fly, but the sequence of events as we understand it right now is that if you disconnect and you're flying a ship, the AI will take over your ship and attempt in its possibly not entirely super awesome way to get you to your destination. So your ship is still around and can be damaged, destroyed. But if you get back on, then you can pilot again. If a friend is on board who has permission to fly that ship, then that friend would supersede that AI pilot and would be able to take control of the ship.

So essentially a hierarchy, right? The owner of the craft is number one, and then any friend that has permission would be position two, and then AI or NPC would be position three, so whoever's left there can pilot it, and then when the guy comes back on, it's still his ship, right? So he just drops back in the body of the NPC and takes back over.