I got blown up by AI last night when I had 47% hull

[kwik]

I'll just say current build (in test only) PC Anaconda vs Elite AI Vulture targeting PP... hull down to 25% before ship goes bang. My new code in the works (much, much better AI accuracy etc)... I sill had 75% hull before my PP went bang! Oh, I had the biggest, most evil grin on my face... But you don't really want Elite AI ships that deadly, do you?

I think if they targeted sub systems other than the PP it could make things more interesting!

That said, critical systems should be inside a citadel, maybe which ammo weapons with a high AP have a chance of getting too - but lasers would have to take a bit longer to melt through - regardless, PP targeting at the moment is a bit overpowered, and makes armor plating upgrades pointless.

I would also like to see ammo modules and extra energy generator modules - it would surely reduce the amount of shield cells people run with if there were more interesting builds available.

 

[dayrth]

The way to defend against it is not to get hit in the first place.

Do you work for Microsoft? If not, perhaps you should.

 

[Frenotx]

Yes, I really do want Elite AI ships that deadly...

Such an improvement would shine a light on the discrepancies between "PvP build centric" combat and "NPC build centric" combat, the imbalance between SCB and subsystem-focused dogfighting (currently "Player" style and "normal" PvE style dogfighting.


If every Deadly/Elite NPC smoked your powerplant, the armour/subsystem issues would get addressed in a jiffy.

If every Deadly/Elite NPC stacked three SCBs and disabled/enabled them to chain-quaff cells, that area would get a long, hard look too.


After the riots, of course.

Strongly agree. I'd gladly trade a week or two of the game being almost unplayably difficult, if it lead to some key features (pp targeting, shield cells) getting a hard look.

 

[Fenster]

I think you do get a warning when your power plant is being hit

I've had the power flicker.. And go off, and say power plant malfunction on the hud

Maybe it is unrelated tho

 

[FAAmecanic]

Fair enough I guess as I've done that to Ai before but I would love to know if there is a way to defend against this type of attack. It would be nice to have an alert that a certain sub system is being attacked and have the ability to press a few buttons to enhance shielding in that area or at least given a vector to hide that subsystem from further attack...anything other than how it works at the moment. It comes as quite a shock that I blow up at 47% hull as the figure has no relevance as to how much longer I might survive in a battle !

LOL.... same here... see my thread:

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=156246