Because bounties are credited for kills not how much damage you do. I can't believe people seriously expect a reward evertime they hit something. This is not Call of Duty!!
Elite: Easymode. NPCs stop shooting 'your' target...whatever next? (rambling rant)
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Because bounties are credited for kills not how much damage you do. I can't believe people seriously expect a reward evertime they hit something. This is not Call of Duty!!
It's not a guarantee. If you do the majority of the damage the NPC will try not get the last hit which is fair play and you'd expect that from a player. Players can still take the bounty from you as usual if you want to be an ass. Your still going to have to employ last hit tactics when dealing with other players. It makes NPC's more realistic as the only NPC's attacking the wanted target are clean.
Other guy is right, your wrong. deal with it.
I don't see it as more realistic. The way they have implemented this change as I understand is that once you have hit a ship then any destruction of that ship by an NPC in the next 10 seconds will allocate the bounty to you. This is dumb. If they had made the NPC back off from attacking then I could say this is perhaps a little more realistic and maybe emulates what a player would do, though I feel would still be catering to new players that want an even easier game. But at least it would make sense and not be giving NPCs special rules.
Only 1 thing is absoloutely certain. The devs are samnned if they do and damned if they dont.
You misunderstand. Just because some change might make some minor aspect of the game marginally easier, that doesn't mean that making the game easier is why the change was made. Bringing NPC steals into line with PC steals is a win independently of the easy/hard thing.
And I'm sure they would have done that if they could, but it's evidently a hard thing to achieve. Special NPC rules are unavoidable when NPC intelligence is limited. Current background AI trading fixes are a perfect example of that—give them free rein, and you get the unrealistic behaviour we've been seeing; special rules are needed to curb dumb AI trading and bring them in line with human traders.
Edit: This has been seen in the real world too; IIRC dumb pricing algorithms used by some Amazon Marketplace traders have led to bizarre situations such as everyday books being put on the market for millions of dollars. Real people don't need special rules to stop them from setting ridiculous prices.
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Tru dat.
In all honesty in the real world if another bounty hunter apprehends or kills your target before you, he rightfully deserves the bounty, regardless of the amount of time you spent tracking the target. Even if the opposing bounty hunter stole that info from you, he'd still get the bounty.
I don't think that's fair necessarily, and I don't think that's an ideal system, but its how the system would work.
I don't think that's fair necessarily, and I don't think that's an ideal system, but its how the system would work.
I'd rather bounties are harder to get because the pilot is hard to kill, or the target has wingmen with him. Not because it's so easy you are just playing a DPS mini-game with other NPCs. Many proponents of this change still want a challenging game as well.
Im a little confused.
They way I read it was that nothing changed regarding the way the AI acts in combat, they will stil attack the target, but you get the bounty if it dies to any other damage within 10 sec of you hitting it.
the title of your post suggests that the AI are not attacking them at all, is that now the case?
They way I read it was that nothing changed regarding the way the AI acts in combat, they will stil attack the target, but you get the bounty if it dies to any other damage within 10 sec of you hitting it.
the title of your post suggests that the AI are not attacking them at all, is that now the case?
All these threads make it apparent to me Frontier need to make two game modes ASAP or risk losing half their player base.
One for people who want a challenge, to get punished for mistakes and encouraged to learn and improved.
Another for people who want a pat on the back and a cookie whatever they do.
Call them Hardcore/Casual Arcade/Simulation Hard/Easy
Splitting the player base into more different game modes really wont make a difference when you so rarely see other players anyway.
One for people who want a challenge, to get punished for mistakes and encouraged to learn and improved.
Another for people who want a pat on the back and a cookie whatever they do.
Call them Hardcore/Casual Arcade/Simulation Hard/Easy
Splitting the player base into more different game modes really wont make a difference when you so rarely see other players anyway.
Am not playing it anymore, becouse game is broken for me just becouse of one I WIN module, shield cell bank. PvE is no more attractive as it requires no skill and theres no challenge anymore.
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lol, half of the player, you make me smile
Ok, you, the game is too easy? then build but your shield, and take
only a laser pulse and then fight against a Cobra or against a
Anaconda !!! where is your problem ????
When you fight in the warzones you'll often meet players on the opposing team.
My experience thus far has been that they're fairly easy to kill
They also run away a lot quicker than your average npc.
I don't get the rights to kill an NPC that missfires on me, so this is immersion breaking and makes no sense at all.
We are now one step closer to quick time events, cut scenes and fast travel. Well done.
It was easier for the noobs who need their hands held to come enmasse and cry their eyes out to be able to progress in the game than close distance to the target, manage power distribution and time their shots. It's a wonder any of us in alpha or beta managed to get out of a sidewinder... Now totally illogically NPC ships will just stop firing because YOU have to get the kill.
Is it a big change, no not really and only affects the total noob. However, it sets the precedent. If enough knuckle dragging noobs whine collectively they'll implement changes to make the game easier.
It was easier for the noobs who need their hands held to come enmasse and cry their eyes out to be able to progress in the game than close distance to the target, manage power distribution and time their shots. It's a wonder any of us in alpha or beta managed to get out of a sidewinder... Now totally illogically NPC ships will just stop firing because YOU have to get the kill.
Is it a big change, no not really and only affects the total noob. However, it sets the precedent. If enough knuckle dragging noobs whine collectively they'll implement changes to make the game easier.
Good reading there dude.
The NPCs keep on doing what they do, but if they killshot a target within 10 second window of player damage, the player gets the kill.
No performance changes on there.
And what do these few K bounties even mean to you? Aren't the pros in anarchy systems hunting real bounties? Or do some actually say they are pro and just hunt NPC bounties?
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Maybe not a Fed/Security ship doing it (which seems reasonable, they're police) but I think any other NPC and you would be able to fire back. At least it used to work like this, and if it doesn't I would argue it should. I wouldn't argue that you should be able to hit them and get away with it.