Right... I have a feeling that wont work at all due to a small line in the code that goes like this:

I thought that pin only pinned the body.

Oh well.

Yeah, but the autoscuttle is rigged to the body and not the thrusters.
If body wont move = boom.

Solutions -
1. have a rocket, a firearm, a whatever, it doesn't matter, as the main body. Use an attachable that instantly gibs (jointstrength = -1), starting an emitter, whose direction you can tweak with emissionangle.

2. Pin one engine of a dropship and make that the actual cannon. Have the body and other engine invisible and free. They will oscillate up and down (heheh...oscillate), thus stopping it from dying of boredom.

3. If you remove the UL thruster from a rocket (just take that part of the code out, and only that thruster, the others don't have this effect) then the other steering thrusters will fire constantly and the doors open.

There you go. Enjoy

The problem is, he wanted destroyable emitters.

My findings:

Dropships die after being pinned... After being attached to Bunkers.
Pinning a dropship doesn't actually make it scuttle, or so I've seen.

Same thing happens to crabs!

BUT.

Not to Coalition Liberators.

I will find out how to replicate the anti-scuttle bug soon.

Give it a thruster that emits .0001 mass really slowly. Something that will keep it moving, but not enough to matter?

Aye, Alenth, I is nooby. I shalt not lie. Best way to learn it to try and ask

This is why noobs should avoid hacky modder topics.

Sadly, I think I'm in the noob modder category now. <_<

Well, I sent Data with the request of the AutoScuttle = 0 variable and decided that ill comment out the ypsilon bomb from the next release until the next build when I can prevent the scuttling...