Remove cheating AI

[BlyssOblyvion]

ahoy, figure this is the proper area for this, but my biggest suggestion (and biggest issue) with this amazing game is the fact that the AI obviously, and blatantly, doesn't have to follow ANY of the rules the players do. they don't worry about ammo, ship capabilities, or even whether or not they even have modules, they just strut around screaming " you i do what i i want". perhaps you can work on giving them the same restrictions players are going to have to follow? examples of what i have seen, TODAY, are:

unlimited ammunition (most notably chaff launchers and railguns)
not affected by heat
infinite power (beam lasers for days)
ponderous ships flying like they're eagles
ships using modules they don't have (most often chaff or SCB)

 

[Riverside]

ahoy, figure this is the proper area for this, but my biggest suggestion (and biggest issue) with this amazing game is the fact that the AI obviously, and blatantly, doesn't have to follow ANY of the rules the players do. they don't worry about ammo, ship capabilities, or even whether or not they even have modules, they just strut around screaming " you i do what i i want". perhaps you can work on giving them the same restrictions players are going to have to follow? examples of what i have seen, TODAY, are:

unlimited ammunition (most notably chaff launchers and railguns)
not affected by heat
infinite power (beam lasers for days)
ponderous ships flying like they're eagles
ships using modules they don't have (most often chaff or SCB)

While I'm very much in favour of the AI using less magic to do things like drop into your instance right behind you, many of the issues you list may be down to your having a not yet fully formed understanding of the capabilities of the ships.

The unlimited ammo thing is fairly easy to test, just record your gameplay for a bit & do some counting. Similarly with heat, if you check their module health you should find it's emulated.

So do some testing, and if you end up with video evidence that something is amiss (or even just a screengrab of an NPC with no chaff, chaffing), raise a bug report.

 

[777Driver]

unlimited ammunition (most notably chaff launchers and railguns)
not affected by heat
infinite power (beam lasers for days)
ponderous ships flying like they're eagles
ships using modules they don't have (most often chaff or SCB)

Op - Do some research

NPC's only have infinite MC ammo, every other ammo based weapon is restricted.

NPC's are affected by heat

(ponderous ships flying like they're eagles) Learn to fly and use all thrusters, you are simply being outflown by the NPC's, I guarantee if you fly in Open you would have the same complaint when a Cmdr makes you look silly in combat.

You would have to give examples of NPC's using modules that they don't have, if it is a bug it is recent, same deal with this instant power bug you claim to have seen.

In all honesty most of your suggestions sounds more like someone that isn't very experienced with what is happening in game. It is no coincidence that it is generally the less experienced cmdrs that start talking about NPC's out-flying them or having better heat/power management