An Illustrated Guide to CLS (Page 4 of 7)

Written by Kirlack

Part 1 - Training your CLS Pilot

Back in the main CLS menu...

Press escape, now you should be back at the main CLS menu

...just click Start external commodity logistics and you pilot will go into standby for a little while and then start zooming off between the stations you selected. He'll stop a little while at each one, so don't panic if he goes into Standby mode for a bit.

If you intended to have your pilot homebased, now is the time to set it.



For some reason if you set the homebase first and then set up CLS it forgets it was homebased.

According to a thread by Kor'ah, training CLS pilots from Apprentice to Logistician takes ~10 hours. IF you only need to get them up to Cargo Messenger (rank 4 of 6), giving them access to jumpdrives, you probably only need 6-7 hours. And that's FLIGHT time, time spent docked doesn't count.

And that's the basics of training your pilots.

BE WARNED! Keep an eye on your pilots in training as they continue drawing a wage, which goes up with their rank. If you start training a large group of them and forget about them they'll drain all the profitssss from your station, or worse, your personal account!

And that's it for the basics of training your guys.. Now onto Part 2, using your CLS Pilots: