PETITION: Nerf NPCs

[Elsdragon]

GALLIC NPCS.can you say "rape"?"Just bomber rape.Bombers raping vhf's, not caps,VHF's.The invincible bomber ends now.They have infinite CD's, and never miss when SNACing a fighter.Not fun getting raped by 5 bombers every minutes.*signs petion again*

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[n00bl3t]

Anyway, any credits on nothing changing?

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It's not a conspiracy, it's localised bias. They're not intelligent enough to form a conspiracy.

[pieguy259]

I put 400 quatloos on NPC Xeno Starfliers being given Battleship turrets in the next update.

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[n00bl3t]

Capital Armour 8 too.

(Raise bet by 400 credits.)

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Anything I say is not intended as offensive, and to try and deliberately misinterpret it as such would be an attempt at trolling via misrepresentation.

It's not a conspiracy, it's localised bias. They're not intelligent enough to form a conspiracy.

[Cellulanus]

Bloody hell thats a close poll.

[pieguy259]

Everyone will *love* the new Xenos, because "now it'll be so much harder to just farm them! It'll provide more of a challenge!"

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[Camtheman Of Freelancer4Ever]

Yes they should, Ive seen nomad bombers chainfiring supernovas, at least give them a bomber powerplant and not infinite...

[Robert.Fitzgerald]

NPCs don't really annoy me on my characters. In Liberty, they only serve to degrade my connection to the server (annoying but they can easily be killed). In Rheinland, they are dangerous but manageable. However, in the Omicrons, they can get a bit annoying. Flying alone is fine, especially as most patrols can be easily dealt with or evaded.

My problem is when you're fighting other players and one side gets a "lucky spawn". You could be having an easy 1v1 battle with an opposing fighter, both sides have no npcs. Suddenly, you could have two spawns of 4 high level VHFs or a BH Destroyer patrol appear, which completely unbalances the fight. This would be a fine situation, if for example one player was assaulting the base of the other players. The patrols however can spawn in many more places.

So there's the complaint - in a lot of cases, fights can be turned around simply by a lucky NPC spawn - whoever gets the high level spawn, wins.

Edit: Nomad fighters, bombers and gunboat npcs are fine in Capital Ships and not that difficult to down. Bombers especially are easy to hit and can easily be countered by normal turrets.

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[Camtheman Of Freelancer4Ever]

That is a nice idea, Rob never did think about it that way.
Why would BHG Dessy patrols be out in the middle of nowhere?
They would be protecting Dabdoru station (just using BHG as an example), not flying around wasting h-fuel.

Would be nice if there were BHG Gunship patrols farther out, and VHFs, only dessies for the station gaurdian job.

here is a rough idea of how i see it

[mjolnir]

They have infinite CD's,

No they have 3-5 pieces of ammo each.

and never miss when SNACing a fighter.

:lol:

I keep pointing people to this nice vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FafaLnxJybM

at 6:06 he flies in GB directly on group of 3 bombers without straffing. They fire 3 SNs... and all miss the gb

Shows da ubah aim doesn't it?

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