I ve always wondered.
Do NPCs target your power plant ?
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No... not yet... 
If I remember rightly the AI Dev Sarah said it may come in "Phase 2" or "Phase 3" of the AI upgrades, especially for the Dangerous/Deadly/Elite ranked NPC's.
But they do "accidentally" hit it at the moment.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=150688&page=4&p=2318032#post2318032
If I remember rightly the AI Dev Sarah said it may come in "Phase 2" or "Phase 3" of the AI upgrades, especially for the Dangerous/Deadly/Elite ranked NPC's.
But they do "accidentally" hit it at the moment.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=150688&page=4&p=2318032#post2318032
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No... not yet...
If I remember rightly the AI Dev Sarah said it may come in "Phase 2" or "Phase 3" of the AI upgrades, especially for the Dangerous/Deadly/Elite ranked NPC's.
But they do "accidentally" hit it at the moment.
phase 2 and phase 3 of AI upgrades?? what crap is that, either put it all in or not, why spread it out?
Its not like they have it all ready and are holding it back out of spite. More a case that it isn't finished yet and they are lacking time.
So you can keep the current AI for the next 6 months and have it upgrade all at once but personally I'd rather have it upgrade in stages as the Devs continue to tweak it and improve it.
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Rather painful when it happens.
It can malfunction (ie cut out completely) for several seconds or so at a time. Ya got no shields, no thrusters, no life suppport, no nothing. You're dead in the water until it comes back on line. Duck and Sitting comes to mind. A 'conda did that to me recently. Hit the thing several times. By sheer dumb luck the bad guy took so long to turn round and come back at me that I was able to escape, with ship held together with duct tape and me several pounds lighter
It can malfunction (ie cut out completely) for several seconds or so at a time. Ya got no shields, no thrusters, no life suppport, no nothing. You're dead in the water until it comes back on line. Duck and Sitting comes to mind. A 'conda did that to me recently. Hit the thing several times. By sheer dumb luck the bad guy took so long to turn round and come back at me that I was able to escape, with ship held together with duct tape and me several pounds lighter
I'm loving every bit of the new AI. They're a true challenge, now. I completely forgot my old ways of cargo scooping, because even in low-sec systems, the three-ship Eagle squadron police will murder the hell outta you.
Yeah, I painfully learned that too a couple of days ago. With all shield-cells spent I had one of these disastrous "Only just this clipper and then return home"-situations. It was a deadly NPC-Clipper and after it managed to cut through my shields it must have targeted my drives... No boost, no FSD-charge and gone was my nice python.
Wow, they are definitely getting better. I'm feeling not so safe anymore in my python-tank.
Eisen
Wow, they are definitely getting better. I'm feeling not so safe anymore in my python-tank.
Eisen
It's probably just that the Asp is very vulnerable in the power plant area, but a lot of hard fights against the AI seem to end with my power plant about 20% more damaged than all of the other modules. Even been destroyed by an AI Clipper when I was on 57% hull. Gawd help the Asp when AI start targeting things deliberately.
Elite NPCs will target modules. So...yeah, it's coming (cue Sarah evil laughter)
Elite NPCs will target modules. So...yeah, it's coming (cue Sarah evil laughter)
She did go on to say this:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=150688&page=8&p=2318795#post2318795
Although personally I'd expect it to come for Deadly/Elite NPC's at some point. In my eyes Elite should be very rare for AI and equal the average human player level of skill giving you a 50/50 chance in an identically equipped ship. The ways to beat it are to be an above-average player or be in a better equipped ship.