Ship AI

Broulan

Has anybody else noticed that the ship AI is actually pretty good? I get lazy every once in a while when I'm near the top of the potential for my ship squad and just auto it. Somehow I usually still turn up a win...? Idk if its the ships I use or what, but it seems to me the guy writing the ship AI needs to spend some time on the character AI side...

Exletion

I think ship Ai is at least competent because the ship strategy is much less involved(at this point) then our current character side of things.

Broulan

Ah ok, yeah that's probably true. I just autoed a battle this morning I didn't expect to win (and didn't really care to) and when I came back to a win just kinda thought about how that'd never happen with characters. But you're right, there are fewer ships/abilities, fewer leaders, and thus fewer strategies.

Mr_Sausage

I find ship AI terrible. Quite often I find enemy squads only calling 1 reinforcement per battle. Sometimes no reinforcements are called.

Slave 1 targeting the only ship that is target locked with proton torpedoes. I see this all of the time.

5's ship targeting the only ship that is target locked with his missle pods rather than applying that target lock on a ship without a target lock.

I don't think I've ever seen an enemy TFP use it's targeting computer ability.

These are just a few examples of awful AI.