Hilarious AI Stupidity... What have you seen?

[Duane Dibbley]

If by stupid you mean crap..I concur!

...although today I had three Elite FDLs attack my DBS at the same time..one bounty hunter appeared while I engaged one & I have no idea why the other attacked me..unless a stray m/c shell hit it since I was using fixed weapons. Some poor novice cmdr in a Cobra tried to help; I killed two & wondered why to other had stopped firing at me..then I spotted the Cobra under attack - I got the last FDLs shields down & ran out of ammo - told the noob to run & waked out myself - 'saw him in SC he had 12% hull remaining lol!

That was the first difficult AI challenge I've had for ages.

 

[BaronDeKalb]

Until such time as AI's are able to train themselves they only have us "Humans" "Non-AI's" to learn from thus the stupidity.

 

[Minonian]

It is difficult to point out a favorite in this massive display of cunning and sheer talent, maybe we could do a Elite x Factor, U got talent, video copetition and MoM could be judge to the best ?
We don't always have to be serious

What about a video compilation with some fitting music like these 2?

Spoiler

[video=youtube;MK6TXMsvgQg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK6TXMsvgQg[/video]
[video=youtube;4Diu2N8TGKA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Diu2N8TGKA[/video]

 

[eraktor]

I guess me flying too near behind that Cobra made him nervous:
[video=youtube;_K4N-Yj-WlE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K4N-Yj-WlE[/video]

 

[Minonian]

:O Nice escape.

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flying a cutter,

get intedicted by a shiedlless sidewinder. Seems to be very clever.
But oh not wait he got some friends, 2 eagles.
One obviously drunk because he slammed himself right into left with 15% hull.

very much a flying suicide squad or just the most drunken pirates ever.

Yeah, there are some absurd encounters like these. when you get interdicted a wing of ships like these while you flying with a battle engineered Conda? Umm... Short work.

 

[Foxiol Eagle]

https://youtu.be/_60Gxhq3r7s
One fast npc.:O

That is happening a lot lately...and every god damn time I jump off my chair because of the sound. [squeeeee]

Yesterday right before going in at a station, one of the Security vessels hit one of the towers outside of the main entrance while doing its "routine" and started to spin for a couple of seconds. It was funny because of the metallic noise it made on impact, and then he kept going like nothing happened of course. I had to stop and laugh at the stupidity but at the same time I imagined him saying "Okay, nothing to see here...ehem..." like the typical "walk of shame" after his mistake. [big grin]

 

[Eminor]

There's some good vids out there, folks - keep 'em coming...
Here's my contribution - An NPC mining with a plasma accelerator.

Spoiler

https://www.dropbox.com/s/36slvch55qni5py/MiningWithAPlasmaAccelerator.mp4?dl=0

 

[ozrix84]

There's some good vids out there, folks - keep 'em coming...
Here's my contribution - An NPC mining with a plasma accelerator.

Spoiler

https://www.dropbox.com/s/36slvch55qni5py/MiningWithAPlasmaAccelerator.mp4?dl=0

they didn't teach him how to change fire groups in npc academy

 

[Soopyyy]

I attacked a surface base and the system security sent a Python after me.

Python didnt cope withe 1.95x gravity well and ended up doing a supersonic belly whacker from orbit. I had to land and finish crying as i witnessed the whole event from its sc drop to its rapid nose dive into the planet at something approaching glide speed.

I couldnt get past the thought that it was mr.bean in a python.

 

[Hans Slowlow]

Some NPC pirates have interesting culinary proclivities. Amazing that they consider 200 tons of biowaste “tasty cargo”. :S

Reminds me of my favorite reply when someone tells me something is an “acquired taste”. That translates to “It taste like excrement, but you’ll get used to it.”

 

[Lily from anim.o.v.e]

Some NPC pirates have interesting culinary proclivities. Amazing that they consider 200 tons of biowaste “tasty cargo”. :S

Reminds me of my favorite reply when someone tells me something is an “acquired taste”. That translates to “It taste like excrement, but you’ll get used to it.”

nothing wrong with glowing space squid soup.

 

[Zeeman]

I'm not on about things like one guy interdicting you over and over, or one guy having super powerful weapons, I'm talking about boneheaded stupidity that makes you burst out laughing.

So I was on my way back to my home system in my Orca with a dozen or so passengers on board, and I got a message from a nice guy with the name, Dimka. He's a Master, in a Viper Mk4, and he wants to interdict me and rob my passengers.

Okay, I've been travelling for two hours and I've already evaded about eight interdictions, everyone from a python to an eagle (!) has tried it on with me, so Dimka's nothing new.

I finish up fuel scooping and lay in a course for the next system. I target Dimka so I can see where he is in relation to me and I see him doing a wide sweeping turn to come in behind me. Of course, behind me is the star I was scooping at.

Dimka's turn brings him behind me so he's perpendicular to me, flying from left to right directly behind me at a very high rate of speed. His icon plunges towards the star, and then he vanishes off my scope.

I wonder what happened for a couple of seconds, and then burst out laughing as I realise that he didn't make the turn and if he's lucky, his FSD yanked him out of supercruise just above the star's corona, with a very satisfying thud!

This is how I avoid interdictions from NPC's all the time.

Ssshhhh... Don't let MoM know!!!

Z...

 

[thirstyfish]

Got interdicted by a conda. No weapons at all. Kept trying to ram my FDL. A tedious, but easy fight.

 

[Limoncello Lizard]

Got interdicted by a conda. No weapons at all. Kept trying to ram my FDL. A tedious, but easy fight.

If that was an Orca, it might have been a bit less tedious.

 

[thirstyfish]

If that was an Orca, it might have been a bit less tedious.

Who gets interdicted by an orca??

 

[CMDR Dreamstate]

lol!

I'll tell you what I experienced just last night with an AI ship.

I went to a planet to do a "scan the checkpoint" mission for a faction. Found the small facility on the planet in the system next door, scanned the objective, got the data and then headed back to my ship...

Next thing I hear as I'm looking at my panels is a familiar noise of an aircraft passing over-head, really low - had it happen many times before, no biggy, I thought. Next thing? I heard an explosion! I mouse-looked over to my right window, and all I see is the shell of an exploded ship flying high in low G.

An actual crash! There was nothing left of the ship though, and I had no idea what it was lol, but it was the first time I saw anything like it!

 

[Cageman]

I have lost count of he number of times I've seen NPC Belugas getting stuck in the mailslot, only to get shot to pieces by the Starport. Poor passengers.

 

[Arvel Yael]

I have lost count of he number of times I've seen NPC Belugas getting stuck in the mailslot, only to get shot to pieces by the Starport. Poor passengers.

I saw that today!! CMDRs were having to maneuver around him!

 

[Oryana]

Was trying to supercharge my FSD in a white dwarf and was interdicted just when I entered one of the arms, pulling us both into a world of fiery pain. I survived by running and dropping heat sinks. The anaconda cooked in his own shield trying to catch me. Last thing I heard before I warped out was an anaconda sized explosion.

 

[Flimley]

My favourite NPC fail is when your dog fighting in a res site and your NPC opponent flys strait into an asteroid...with a satisfying CLANG!! oh how I laugh.

Flimley