Stop suggesting pilots be tied to ships or for them to be a lesser part of the game. Having pilots should not give you a head start when ships get released, Wiggs is the current meta so having pilots tied to ships would let all the top arena players be top of ship arena day one as well. Everyone needs to start with whatever few ships they give us and then have to get shards for the rest of them.
And as far as it being just a mini game or some other lesser part of the game for whatever reason like; you don't want to have to spend more time/money on the game, or don't like space battles in general so you don't want it to have a big impact. Well you don't have to play it, I'm sure it will be its own thing with its own rewards and probably won't be part of the dailies, except that it will probably use cantina energy, the yellow I would guess, and that using it for ship battles would count towards dailies.
So you can play it or choose to ignore it, but don't wish for it to be minor part of the game with little rewards to it. Just because it's not something your looking forward to or even interested in, doesn't mean others like myself aren't. I know I'm going to be diverting all my resources into ships so if EA wants my money, they're going to need ships to be a second game within the game, with a huge roster of ships for me to open my wallet and spend some real money on.
