So I should start by saying I'm totally fine with the way things are currently, I was just curious if someone could explain the rationale behind not having an auto-pilot for navigation. It would seem the benefit would be balanced by the risk of destruction for being afk, but maybe I'm not understanding the whole picture.

Can anyone elaborate?

Because this is not EvE. You pilot your ship, and that's an end of it. None of this autopiloting autotrading rubbish.

Well, for most people this is sufficient:
/alias turbolock "+turbo"
/bind somekey turbolock

And if you want to be a little fancier and avoid using up an extra key, you can use my TapLockTurbo plugin.

But yeah, there isn't much point to having an auto-pilot currently; our universe is much smaller than EVE's. It's not like it takes a half hour to traverse or anything (well, maybe in a Trident).

Fair enough. +1 to TapLockTurbo plugin. I use it religiously, thanks!

Just type /+turbo and forget all this new fangled key binding silliness!

For combat/pvp scenarios this would be very useful. However, I can see why they don't want to develop it for Traders. So I'm not sure why they don't allow it for ships that have low cargo.

Because it would be a waste of developer time and not to mention totally unnecessary. The last thing this game needs is any kind of flight autonomy. We'd be no different from EvE.

Autopilot isn't what makes EVE suck.

-1 to having auto-pilot on fighters and not traders. That would just be weird and silly. The status quo is fine.

Nautargos wrote a script allowing ScarBank to deliver......

Good for you sheff. Now back into hibernation. Most of those controls are broken anyway.

Tokko Bashalis please excuse the collective blood-pressure level in the room.

I think it's because the dev don't want it. I don't know this for a fact but they have removed anything that could be used for us to make our own autopilots in LUA.

Welcome to VO.

+1. With the influx of mobile users a auto-nav option would be great ( no keys to bind on a tablet ). If a player wants to risk their ship and cargo while in auto-nav mode, it's their choice.

No need to bind keys on a tablet, get the DroidButtons plugin!

I'm going to express my frustration in a proactive manner to the next person to fucking bump an old and stupid thread.

No need for threats; we've been over this before.

Because the Dr. hasn't invented yet