Artificial Intelligence Transport

[The_Crew]

The AI will never have a battleship and allowing this to be a cruiser with a larger cargo and an option for transport or cruiser turrets does several things:

It gives them a ship that can harvest resources and store them while harvesting.
It gives them a jump capable model--very minimally.

Both of these are things that every faction has a need of. AI also are limited to 3600 cargo just as Freelancers.

Yes they can use other transports but the point is that many people don't want "house ships" for their AI characters (for those that do they already can get them).

I wouldn't mind on the cargo version of the cruiser if the guns were dropped down to a mix of gunboat and cruiser types (with the option of having transport turrets too) since the power supply would have to be large for them to be jump capable.

The whole concept is for the AI to be different in form than human built ships. I also am not setting out to build a whole class of ships--just the one. It could be (as described here) as gunboat/cruiser/transport/miner--which is four role types filled with a single model.

Asking for an AI battleship, AI cruiser, AI gunboat, AI bomber, AI light Fighter, AI Transport, etc., etc. is a lot to ask of the devs. This is a simple solution that gives AI a way to mission and trade well enough to build a character financially and to rp with others.

I think the option to use house ships should be there like it is for those that have that rp--I'm not addressing that. An ID change allowing the AI to use house gunboats would also give you a gunboat class with no model required.

But a gunboat isn't going to give you a trade ship which you need to grow with.