Artificial intelligence

[Echo 7-7]

After seeiing the new tech nerf chart it seems ai's can no longer get anithing that civilian equipament witch is quite disapointing...they dont have an own system/planet no guns exept civ ones...and the Ai cruiser is more like a destroyer because of its agility and it could use some special destroyer turets
Is that posible to make custom guns? And i dont mean high powered like the Shf just simple destro guns that can be mountable on this cruiser just to give it a bit more feel of uniqness
It is an alien robot...it could probably use all technology(because its an sofisticated robot) or none because it has higher technology...that includes civilian gear too but it dosent have its own equipament

This issue arises from the fact that the AIs wouldn't even have any presence at all, if not for having Omicron Delta as an "easter egg" system from Vanilla Freelancer. I don't know if any of you have been around long enough to have player / heard of the Monkey Universe mod, but they made fully developed factions from both the Robots and the Monkeys.

Anyway, the point here is that the current AI status quo is fairly insignificant. They don't play a very big role in Discovery lore, and effort required to expand them wouldn't yield a very good return, and there are unfortunately many more pressing tasks the Devs need to work on.

There where the Harvesters...but they are out
And it seems the Sentient Machine alliance are still around quite a bit...mabe they can help

I'd swear the SMA had disbanded... have I just been in the wrong timezone? I'm doubtful.

Have any of you tried an official request to a faction for usgage of theyr equipament?

we need to start somewhere....

The current AI ID has been designed solely to support the use of the AI Drone and AI Cruiser, the current models for which are actually nice (new Drone is much better than the old one). If you want to Roleplay as an artificial intelligence which is part of an NPC faction, then you're suggested to just use that faction ID and use your imagination. Truth be told, the current AI ID really feels like a Harvester ID in disguise - at least the rephacks will disappear in the next update.



I've been considering current AI lore/RP for a while, and the way things are at the moment, the best way to build a faction would be to do something similar to the Harvesters (but not identical). The best idea that I've come up with so far involves the AIs as being the war machines of an ancient alien race which is at war with the Daam K'vosh or Nomads; the AIs would be fairly unfriendly to humans, as they would take a negative stance on "organics". However, they would really hate the Nomads and obliterate them on sight. It plays on the strengths on the current IDs, by staying around the Omicrons and Edge Worlds.

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