with the ig2000 coming soon, i have to ask the question, would a droid suffer pilot stress? keep in mind, i'm talking about an ig series assassin droid, not a protocol droid. many droids have human like emotions, but the ig series was designed for emotionless action. would it suffer from an organic concept like mental stress?
some people say, "it's the ship that suffers the stress," but i disagree. it is the action, which is why we call it pilot stress. it is mentally stressful to make the ship do what you want. it is stressful to shoot at the rebel captive. but would a droid care?
bear in mind, droids are not organic. they are using a very complicated program to determine their goals. there is self directed behavior, but still they follow a program.
droids also have an added advantage, they can actually jack in to the ship to perform better. i know when zahn was writing the heir to the empire series, they had restrictions on what r2 could and couldn't do.
so, what do you think- would a droid suffer from mental stress or would they just delete the subroutine?

CPU Heat build up.

Stress is simply what happens when your situation exceeds your ability to handle a situation. I don't see why droids should be immune to it.

I'm sure even for a droid, calculating the N'th decimal percentage of which action is the more appropriate, will be "stressed" if having to do so while being shot at. Even if an emotionless automaton.

But I do think that the IG will have a built-in R2 on it's dial. (8-9 total Green maneuvers)

At the end of ANH, R2-D2 got a bit stressed in the trench.

I think the stress resembles the stress on the craft not the stress on the pilot. However even machines and computers are vulnerably to high G-forces.

In this game, there is no "pilot stress". There's stress, and each ship in this game is actually a combination of pilot and ship, so there's no reason to distinguish between the ship stress and pilot stress. It's an abstract concept and the game mechanic works the same way no matter how you choose to envision it in your mind's eye.

It's like Pilot Skill. Pilot Skill is a timing mechanic. It sounds like "pilot prowess" but it could just as easily have been called Timing or Stat #1 or Movement Order and it would work exactly the same way. Pilot Skill just sounds nicer, but it doesn't mean anything.

If you've ever seen a fighter aircraft stall or spin, you'll see that stress isn't just pilot, but machine too. I imagine that whatever strange physics cause Star Wars ships to fly the way they do also cause weird stresses.

As I understand, it's theoretically possible for modern drones to do maneuvers that would rip their wings off. But I know very little about them or aeronautical physics.

Why don't you ask C3PO if droids get stressed?

On second thought, don't. He'd probably have a panic attack thinking about it.

We don't know yet, but one of the pilots may have a stress mitigating effect that he can share with his buddies. Makes some sense.

Think of the Topgun song.

"Metal under tension begging you to touch and go"

Its the ship structure that is stressed.

And if that is not good enough for you its a game based on Science Fiction.

Just let it go.

Think of IG-88 like a normal computer, the more stuff you try to do at once the slower it goes until it locks up. 1 video isn't too bad, then you start skimming twitter, then you start playing a game, then you turn on your music, then you try to send emails, and before you know it your PC is slowing down and even your keystrokes in chat are starting to lag(I imagine red maneuvers to be as complex as multitasking, and other sources of stress as things like viruses). Then you do a reboot (AKA green maneuver) and bam back to normal

As a comparison droïds in the FFG RPG aren't immune to stress, so I don't think that will be the case here either.

OTOH if they were immune to stress then perhaps they should take additional damage when Ion weapons are used???

Yeah, like others I've never thought of the stress mechanism being exclusively about the pilot, but as much about pushing the craft to the limits of its performance.

One of his card abilities might be anti stress, but given that it looks like one of his abilities lets him K-Turn with a bank ignoring stress too would be crazy good.

Whether it's thematically accurate for him to get stressed, game wise I think he really has to, and you could put it down to any number of reasons if you wanted to explain it if you need it make story sense.

Also i imagine some of the cirts won't make sense for droids either?

Yep but its a game based on abstractions... you just have to imagine a similar result that would affect a droid.

This is Star Wars! So droids are far more emotional than sentient beings and should be even more prone to stress. Just compare C3PO, the nervous wreck, to Han Solo, an emotional robot.(Ever replied to a woman who said she loved you "I know"?)

I dont think that was meant to show Han as emotionless, more cocksure and arrogant to the end.

I don't mind Han Solo being so cool he pisses ice cubes. What get's me are those lame space opera robots. The whole point of constructing robots is that they have no emotions. Commander Data and his emotional chip (leaving to wash out mouth with soap)

But i think thats the point.

Droids in star wars 'develop' personalities over time, thats why often they get memory wiped by new owners so they dont develop bad habits.. like IG88 killing his designers.. thats a bad habit.

They were purposely made to be as 'human' as the human actors, if you think about it most of ANH is from their perspective and they are the first real characters you see and hear.

R2D2s 'droidspeak' actually had human voice sounds blended in to make him more 'likeable' and 'human'

Like when he goes 'oooh' or screetches.

There are robot type machines in star wars.. like binary load lifters... they need droids like 3po to interact with them as they dont have the same awareness a protocol or R2 droid does.

Well a droid would operate on logic alone as they have no squishy organs to cloud things, this means when things fail to match their projections they'll get just as confused as an organic.

But while an organic can fall back onto instinct machines have no such ability.

^^^ this

its why in some EU content some people dont like being treated by medical droids as if something comes up unexpectedly like a complication in surgery that they have never encountered before they dont know what to do.

Imagine the issues that happen when they squirt over the wrong medical file, and the droid thinks it's treating a rodian instead of a quarion.

I have to agree its the ship that is doing the stressful move not the pilot. In my mind it explains why the tie defender has a white k-turn as its engines are so powerful it just turns around easily and gets back into the fight but can't turn worth a crap.

I don't know about "pilot" stress, but C-3P0 was a droid and boy did he suffer from all kinds of stress all the time.