Talk:Merchant One/@comment-30277232-20170111220323/@comment-454133-20170111232957

All the same, auto-equip means you would literally never deploy without it. It's a fundamental part of the ship and the ship as intended is gimped without it, and there's not deliberation on whether it's worth equipping -- it's all positive. Alliance Overhaul is free and has no downsides, so it's an auto-equip; there's no reason to deploy an ARC without it. Adaptive Ailerons does have a downside (trickier to fly) and people do talk about flying without it to have a more deliberate, controllable striker, so it's not necessarily an auto-equip (except for Duchess). It's hard to make exceptions to this standard (e.g. heavy scyk used to be a pseudo-auto-equip, but even before the light scyk reveal it was iffy).

"Auto-equip" is such a specific term that I don't think it applies here at all, especially since we don't know all the cards that come with this ship. All someone needs is to come up with one viable C-ROC fleet that doesn't include this card, and wouldn't be unambiguously improved by equipping this card, and they'll prove it's not an auto-equip. Proving there's no such fleet is a tall order.