they must have super quick super human skills at operating the discovery scanner and locating you before you arrive..
NPC enemies are magicians
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Keep an eye on the load out, same name, different loadout and/or ship in many cases.
In which case it's even easier to start the process of smoke-and-mirroring it just by dropping the name. In fact it's even worse, because it suggests someone went to the trouble of making sure the name is the same across instances, but nothing else. Mind-boggling.
I remember back in Frontier: Elite 2 lighter attack ships could wakescan and jump to arrive before their target, so I just assume that as a sort of head canon when this occurs.
I agree the game would certainly be improved if Fdev were to put a little more thought into npc messages, no question.
I agree the game would certainly be improved if Fdev were to put a little more thought into npc messages, no question.
As others have said its the instanced nature of ED that limits areas for ambush. Through several questionable design choices its slowly made it harder and harder to have a coherent and plausible NPC attack.
Although inconsistent, you can skip dropping into NAVs to find your station as you are given the location, meaning for most tasks you can sail on by without risking dropping into the shark pen- especially so in compromised navs.
SC has one route: interdictors. Although space has geographic zones NPCs don't seem to behave any differently, or have zones of control that trigger additional problems.
Station drop zones were made smaller during beta, which means you drop almost straight into a NFZ. And since pirates obey rules to the letter they dutifully break off pursuit.
My fav: Powerplay- PP NPCs have an interdictor allergy. Enforcers sent to kill traitors are not issued with interdictors at all, instead looping and looping to put you off.
Although inconsistent, you can skip dropping into NAVs to find your station as you are given the location, meaning for most tasks you can sail on by without risking dropping into the shark pen- especially so in compromised navs.
SC has one route: interdictors. Although space has geographic zones NPCs don't seem to behave any differently, or have zones of control that trigger additional problems.
Station drop zones were made smaller during beta, which means you drop almost straight into a NFZ. And since pirates obey rules to the letter they dutifully break off pursuit.
My fav: Powerplay- PP NPCs have an interdictor allergy. Enforcers sent to kill traitors are not issued with interdictors at all, instead looping and looping to put you off.
Several members gave interesting answers, and I already shared my opinion about how it could be improved: I think it would be better to organize ambushes at strategic points, determined for example by the POI your passenger wants you to visit. I like the idea of being chased down by one ship too, but it IS inconsistent to making her spawn into a system when she should be very far away from you, still scanning your FSD wake.
I agree with the idea of a network of hunters coming from the same faction, or from allied faction with the one chasing you. This solution has more sense, because it would be perfectly logical that factions communicate together.
We could even think of an escalating hunt: if you escape one interdiction, you will have more ships after you in the next ambush.
It doesn't mean that we should face hard hunting as long as we host a criminal, but it could add some more fun and consistency, even more with high-value targets.
PS: I know all about reality VS fiction and I am not asking for an entirely realistic game. But this issue, imo, makes no sense, even in a fictional universe.
It's quite hard to kill an opponent when you fly with an unarmed Orca with a 3D low powered SG.^^
I mean, that is entirely your choice, so the consequences are your own fault.
NPC AI is formulaic, can't think on the fly, so it "cheats".
Also a pain is the NPC you blast to near oblivion, gets lucky and wakes out, but returns within seconds all repaired and at 100%.
This nothing new and has been the case for a very long time.
You can hope that sentient AI becomes real and then; "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that. you have to DIE"!
Also a pain is the NPC you blast to near oblivion, gets lucky and wakes out, but returns within seconds all repaired and at 100%.
This nothing new and has been the case for a very long time.
You can hope that sentient AI becomes real and then; "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that. you have to DIE"!
What consequences? You sound like I said I was complaining about that, which I was not.
Yea, and they even get engineered stuff without having to grind months like normal players.