You gud. I hahaha'd
"Guns don't kill people - Cheats kill people"
In all seriousness, "git gud" people will be here as long as these "AI is a joke" people will keep posting these rants.
If OP, instead of ranting, opened any of the previous eighty threads with the same theme, they would find many good advises, tips and tricks of how to avoid this.
AI doesn't cheat. Almost. The only obvious "cheat" is that they appear directly behind you, when they want to interdict you. That's it. Other than that they use the same modules, same weapons and the same physics you do.
The only problem here is that while war tactics changed, you got stuck in the past. It doesn't matter that you are not a combat pilot, if you refuse to learn to defend yourself, you'll die.
Wild west and all that.
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Sorry but so far I havnt found even a Single Good Advice in all these Topics.
No Offense. But Changing the Playstyle towards Hardcore Combat Player is not an Good Advice.
Even less Good is the Advice to immediately Select an Route towards an Random Surrounding System and then Reselecting your Destination Station in the System. Just to have a High Wake Point available.
The AI is Cheating. Thats a Fact. Its Ignoring Tons of Rules which a Player has to Follow.
And no its not just about Spawning behind you.
1.
AI Shoots at you all the way till you Low Wake. And then Appaears behind you almost Instantly.
It simply ignores the Time needed for Charging FSD and Countdown to Jump.
2.
AI Repairs or even Changes Ships sometimes in between 2 Low Wake Encounters. (because its Despawned and then Respawned behind you as you already Stated)
3.
AI Fires by using your Movement Input rather than your Visible Movement. Thanks to that it can Hit you on 3km and more with 100% Accuracy even if your doing Evasive Maneuvers. Because unlike a Player which has to wait for you to actually move. The AI knows which way you will move the moment you press the Button.
4.
AI (as you already stated) spawns behind you instead of following you. So even if you Drop out of SC via Emergency Drop or change Course after you Low Waked. The AI does not need to Search for you. Even if it has no Wake Scanner it can Follow you anywhere or rather it doesnt follow you but simply gets spawned behind you regardless of how well you maneuver away.
5.
AI can Fire Weapons Nonstop regardless of Heat or Distributor Draw. Even if you Destroy its Power Generator or Distributor Effectively Halfing the Power. it doesnt care at all.
6.
AI Ignores Sensor Range. It knows where you are even when you with A Sensors and much better Range have no Idea where it is.
7.
AI needs no Scanners. They know your Routes, your Cargo and your Drop or Jump Points without ever Aiming Sensors at you and sometimes even without even having Scanners for it.
Needless to say they can Interdict you even in between 2 Jumps at the Sun and know you got Cargo 2 Seconds after your in the System.
8.
AI ignores the Sun and Planets in SC. It Simply Flies through them without giving a about it. Worse it even Ignores Heat from the Sun. Thus if it Interdicts you and you get thrown out of SC because you hit the Sun. You take Heat Damage but he doesnt.
Not even while Firing Beam Lasers at you Nonstop.
9.
AI doesnt Pay Insurance and thus goes after you like a Crazy Kamikaze Fighter. Even continuing to attack you when Security Forces are its Rear.
They have no Self Preservance requirement at all. So they try to go after you like a Crazed Lunatic even if you got only 3 Tons Cargo.
And well Mate.
I think I.ll correct this Statement.
Unless ED Corrects this Rubbish AI. The Game will Die (in a Financial Sense) because the Hardcore Community is likely below 10% of the Total Players. And the Casual People will all sooner or later Leave if the AI is not Adjusted Properly.
And I doubt you will get much more Expansions if that Happens.
They do take heat damage and do drop out of SC near suns/planets. In fact I remember distinctly entering a system, turning whilst scooping and since my back was to the sun and I was very close the AI that was manoeuvring for an interdiction faceplanted into it.