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Now you might seeing as you could in theory communicate with your gunner over voice comms rather than just hoping the AI picks the right thing to shoot at. That and you now have a way of getting eyes on everything that isn't to the immediate front of your ship other than a ship-launched-fighter.

As for non-combat rolls, I'd expect we might see some in future updates but they probably just don't have enough in the way of stimulating gameplay outside of shooting things to warrent full positions. I mean plotting a course is sort of a bother right now for the guy flying the ship so why would someone want to jump into the right seat only to do nothing but that.

Basically the reason the pilot does the plotting right now is because they actually have something fun to do.