NPC nerf

[pillow]

Oh, we aren't necessarily focusing on encounters. Missions and Titan's encounters are entirely separate things, and a primarily me thing. I'm still tweaking them, but the main thing I did was change their AI and aiming for them to be more interesting to fight. On 5.0 release, they were at a point where I personally enjoyed them. I could do the missions (snub ones, admittedly, I overlooked gunboat ones entirely, though I would assume that the mines are the primary reason why they're so difficult.) and enjoy them. I forgot that people aren't as masochistic as me, though.

The other thing I wanted to do with them (and fighter NPCs in general) be essentially pvp training wheels. NPCs that turn, shoot you with all their guns, all that, so people can do missions against NPCs that are more fun to fight and also NPCs that are teaching them how to fight against players through aiming and dodging practice.

TL;DR I overshot the hell out of them and I'm still tweaking them and messing with their loadouts. I want people to enjoy missions, not bash their heads against unbeatable odds. I've been considering things such as giving NPCs powercores, among toning down their aiming. There are a lot of things I could do to tone them down, I just need to sit down and do it, which is the difficult part.