During the Clone Wars many of the vehicles acted on their own and did not require a pilot. Many of them used by the Confederacy. I've added the following lines to the "cis_tread_snailtank" under MapScale and WEAPONSECTION = 1
Look at this video. Near the end the two Droid Enforcers on the left move on their own. The one on the far right does not have any time to move before the game ultimately crashes.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/k7wcy9a1kzjbn ... -00-37.avi

With no evidence of what went wrong in the error log I don't know how to fix this. Can anyone help? Thanks.

If you want the whole vehicle to pilot itself I don't think you put the "PilotType = self" line under any weaponsection, just under properties near the top of the odf.

Just a note, it's my understanding that having Hover self piloted vehicles immediately crash the game. At least that's what has happened to me, and several other people. Maybe we're all just doing it wrong.

Self piloted flyers work just fine though.

Another note: I've had walkers work as well.

Maybe it just wont work on the Hailfire and Tread Droid. I'll give the Spider Droid and the Space Vehicles a try.

Edit: Space vehicles worked fine. None of the land vehicles operated on their own without making the game crash.

any hover vehicle, including tread ones like hailfires and snail tanks end up crashing.

so far any other vehicle or turret works autopiloted. I've done it with walkers, fliers, and turrets.