Pure respect for combat Elites

By the time the new stuff gets to the X-Box they won't be running away that much anymore.
Sarah Jane Avery (the AI programmer) already announced that she will tweak the AI to display more varied behavior when it loses shields.

Saw her post, repped it, friend requested her. :p Good news.

Like I said at the top of this page, nothing is set in stone; it's only a beta.
 
Was that you at Carpini terminal the other night Bongo? I would have sent an o7 but I was logging off for the evening
It would have been, yeah. Seen quite a few CMDRs there this week. It's a good spot

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Have you tried Powerplay, Sir?

Undermining pew pew style sure does make popping NPC's much more meaningful :D

Plus it's quite nice to earn a bit of a wage from someone each week and a nice plus a special upgrade always helps (Prismatic Shields in my case) :D
Nah, I do a week of days and a week of nights so maintaining my level 5 thingywotsit would be difficult. I was amazingly drunk when I posted this by the way, I'm impressed by drunk me's punctuation :D
 
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Saw her post, repped it, friend requested her. :p Good news.

Like I said at the top of this page, nothing is set in stone; it's only a beta.

Exactly, that's why FD is doing this after all.
And I bet this not the end of AI tweaking either until the game is truly finished.
 
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If the NPC changes stay as they are in 2.1beta, there will need to be substantial changes to the way combat rankings work.

I've been Elite for some while, but it took 11753 Bounties and 427 Combat Bonds.
Now I'm up to 22051 bounties.

Most were obtained in RES, as I guess they were for the first person to obtain Elite ranking a couple of months after game launch.

Goodness knows how long it will take for someone just starting out with the NPCs behaving like they do in beta 2.1
Personally I'd have restricted the improvements in AI to mission kill targets and kept RES sites similar to 2.0
 
I'm 31% Deadly and about to go and live in a Combat Zone for a while. I manage about 1% per hour of Rez, hopefully I can double that in a CZ
 
It would have been, yeah. Seen quite a few CMDRs there this week. It's a good spot

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Nah, I do a week of days and a week of nights so maintaining my level 5 thingywotsit would be difficult. I was amazingly drunk when I posted this by the way, I'm impressed by drunk me's punctuation :D

Yeah, I reckon that could be difficult with shift work. I've never even tried to get to level 5 thingy though, just looked like a it needed more time than I could throw at it. I tend to hover around 2 or 3 when in PP mode, it's not too much trouble to maintain at that level :)
 
I just nailed Deadly last night... shortly after a 20 mil buyback on my revamped Anaconda. Since getting to Elite trade rank and waiting for Horizons before I do any more exploring, I thought I'd hit a few HazRes sites to improve the 'Dangerous' I had been at forever...

That final Anaconda made a satisfying bang as I fired a nicely lobbed purple tennis ball at his Powerplant from point blank range :)

I had been in the res site for a while and was heading back for a quick repair when the Anaconda showed up on it's own... I was so tired, I even forgot to pop an SCB...

I've really enjoyed using the Anaconda since everyone seems to be flying Corvette SCB tanks or Ferdies for pew pew these days...although admittedly, my Conda has the same shields and more armour than a Corvette :D

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I'm on 86% dangerous, taking forever for deadly, I can't think ahead to elite yet! I feel I should just concentrate on one task, however get easily bored so switch to trading and exploring, maybe ill get the last push to deadly and then switch again.
 
I just nailed Deadly last night... shortly after a 23 mil buyback on my revamped Anaconda. Since getting the Trade Elite and waiting for Horizons before I do any more exploring, I thought I'd hit a few HazRes sites to improve the 'Dangerous' I had been at forever...
Same here, I'm just waiting to fit that buggy and I'm off. I want to get rid of that ↙ annoying 'Master' before I do, which has been there forever as well
 
It's all about the HI conflict zones. Undermining is decent as well, as you'll run into high-ranked cargo ships, but for spawn rate CZs are the way to go. If you're in Power Play, your power probably has a system flipping crew; they always know where the best CZs are.
 
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