Perhaps offered at a few stations for a price per hour.

Run turrets?

Oh you mean "operate" turrets as a gunner.

+1

really, why can't they auto fire, ffs?

i'll hire a bot to run your turret!

I say either put NPCs in the seats of all turrets in game and count them as additional kills if we kill them, or make them auto fire the same way convoys auto fire if you damage them.

oh yes please do that, should be hilarious:
Pursue the moth to a station damage it outside NFZ to trigger the turret fire, then enter NFZ and let 'em hit ye a bit and let SF do the job fer ye.

It's already on the list.

+1

+1

There should also be a menu for how they behave..."don't shoot at anyone", "shoot at whoever shoots us", "shoot at current target", and maybe something like "point frontmost turrets forward and link to pilot's/captain's primary trigger".

DeathSpores pointed out one of many potential problems behind this. I'd rather see more refined flight controls for the pilot while controlling a turret or the ability to assign turrets to controllable groups that players can operate than add more NPC controlled stuff to what's supposed to be a multiplayer game.

+1