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The Gunnery check specifically says to use the gunner's Piloting _ranks_. So this got me wondering, does that means your class skill bonus and other bonuses to Piloting checks wouldn't count? It seems to me that given the BAB bonus, you'll very rarely have a higher Piloting rank than your BAB anyway.

Something I noticed looking in the GM section, it's suggested that NPCs have a CR equal to their class level (p389, Adding NPCs). This is a noticeable difference from Pathfinder, where it would be class level - 1 if I'm not mistaken. I understand that stuff like hit dice and the like are a thing of the past, but is this correct, it feels like it would be very hard to fight an equivalent party of NPCs, like boarding a ship for example.