Hilarious AI Stupidity... What have you seen?

[Ultra Sheriff]

Seeing NPCs hitting asteroids is fun.

An IMP clipper only had one fixed cannon on each nacelle.

I was in a viper, and he had no conversion. Every time he shot, both cannon shots would pass each side of my ship.

Easy 100,000 bounty

 

[Thomas Mainwaring]

The glory days of NPC stupidity were probably when they felt the sudden urge to stop and roll when under attack. Sadly Elite ships don't rotate fast enough to do a barrel roll and deflect lasers.

 

[AgamemnonWhen]

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.

I was fighting en Elite NPC Anaconda in a Haz RES at the weekend and by the time I'd dispatched his two Eagle wingmen I'd taken some pretty heavy damage - down to about 40% hull and no time to recharge those shields. He was down to about 25% hull and had managed to get shields back online and boosted them - I had my work cut out in my Fightin' Python (especially as I'm not really a combat specialist!), so I took him on a little high-speed (well, more like 'potter along at his speed'!) cat and mouse chase through the asteroids whilst my shields came back online. Luckily, he headbutted a 'roid whilst lumbering around, his shields all but disappeared, and I managed to finish him off!

 

[bubbabenali]

The "I've gotta Beluga" NPC on every undock procedure ever...

 

[AgamemnonWhen]

The "I've gotta Beluga" NPC on every undock procedure ever...

Cheeky blighter tried to muscle in on me the other week.

I have Class-6 shields on the Python, and with full downward thrust (grade 3 clean) I refused to give way and forced his nose down - NPC ended up kissing the wrong end of the slot, with his tail in the air blocking pretty much the whole letterbox. I didn't stick around to see if he managed to extricate himself from that predicament before the station lasers 'encouraged' him out of the way.

Made oi larf.

 

[shadragon]

The AI issues are few and far between for me.

The AI FDS who interdicted me, dropped a fighter, then killed my trade Python in short order, didn't put a foot wrong.

I'm suspecting SJA has more tricks up her sleeve when alien AI arrives.

 

[Arvel Yael]

So today I was pulling out of a station to see an Orca and a Beluga next to each other just inside the mailslot alternating their engines, on-off-on-off went both ships, as if the pilots of the cruise liners were polite British people going "After you" "No, after you" "I insist" "Please, the way ahead is clear for you" etc etc...

Disappointingly one of the ships eventually decided to go first and the other followed behind, at which point I proved the superiority of human stupidity by carelessly boosting into the back of the Orca and knocking a ring off my shields.

Came across this guy when I was RES hunting one time. Never did find out if he was celebrating after discovering a high yeild asteroid, or if he just fell asleep at the controls.

That's a VERY maneuverable Type 9!
I love how you checked everyone one of his modules, I can practically hear you mumbling "What is with this guy???"

Also, YAY! GIR! Invader Zim movie in the works!