NPC Difficulty bugs

[Thargoid]

With 40 or so players on the server, as a pirate fighter/bomber, the game is unplayable.

Pirating along a trade lane brought ~10 hostile NPCs in under two minutes and the numbers were climbing rapidly. I had to get on to killing them because hull damage was imminent.

If this is to continue, I guess we should all pirate in cruisers with a simple demand and ready to open fire two seconds later.

Not to mention the strain it's going to have on players not lucky enough to have a good/stable connection.

Where this has happened: New York, New Berlin, Shikoku, Cambridge, Omega 3, Anjou.
I guess it's a server wide issue. Downsizing the numbers of the NPCs is what I'd propose as a solution.



titan

Completely agree with this, not only is it annoying and boring as hell fighting NPCs, it's detrimental to player interaction, if I actually manage to stop a trader while the lane is down (which isn't often now as 100% of your time is spent fighting off NPCs and not making sure the lane stays disrupted). Then I can't interact with them because if I sit still for a few seconds I'll be toast.

If the NPC spawn rate remains the same, then yes, I will pirate in a cruiser, at least then I can interact with people.

Transport NPCs are retarded too, they engage immediately and don't try to flee, then when ship they're supposed to be protecting leaves, they stay and fight you for no reason, idiotic.