I don't really like the skill challenge for the piloting skill in this game. I should improve my flight skills through pulling off sick moves and evasions in combat, not just going on wanton murder sprees, completely oblivious to the human lives that I'm ending just to get a cooler ship. Sure, I could use the Vanguard's piloting simulator instead - but that still adds to the ships destroyed statistic and, in a way, almost feels like cheating. I understand I'm being very vague about what I want, so perhaps an alternative to the skill challenge could be to simply disable enemy ship systems using EM weapons or sheer luck instead of just killing everyone inside? I'm not sure how that would work, or if it'd even be possible without CK2, but any solution is a good one at this point.