auto is only 50% of a manned one from what i recall of the stats, think it says somewhere in game. problem with the manned one is thats one of your rotation staff glued to the thing.

Originally posted by Illusia:

. problem with the manned one is thats one of your rotation staff glued to the thing.

That and staff rotations making it go unmanned

there's a little trick around that - turn the calibrator machine off for a moment, and the engineer will resume his tasks, like eat/sleep etc.
just replacing the calibrator machine with a different will make the engineer get stuck in a "dunnowhattodonow!"-loop. But a save and reload of the game tends to fix that.
But yes, the manned ones are twice as fast AND benefit from the bonus of those "10% calibration boosters" that you can build on the bridge.
At the end I built SIX of those boosters and was always able to run away in time.

need to try that at some point