NPC Balance

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no No NO and NO

if you're having trouble with npc's, its because your weapons aren't up to it - when your hitting them, your not doing enough damage, and your not hitting them for long enough for them to die.

example:

you're in colorado, in a starflier. Bunch of xenos comes up to you, guns blazin.

1. don't target them, cos they fly better if you do.

2. line up, engine kill, thrust+strafe, and as you sail past keep firing. his shields will go down. when the ship is going away from you, TAP thrust, and you'll be drifting along behind him, firing away. he will pot, srry, regen at this point, but just keep on at him for as long as you can until he turns.

3. thrust AWAY at this point, and he will turn to chase you. turn to face him while going backwards - the npcs still chase you, even though your stripping off their hulls. if your shield starts going down, thrust towards them, and repeat steps 2-3 until boom, and tractor in the loot.

this method works in a transport against 3 molly gunboats in dublin. they just spawned on me, so i kept fighting.

ive been playing disco for 6 months, and i love it. the npc's are a challenge, and thats good. previous mod's ive played on also had regening npcs, and to get a neutral rep you had to kill lots of xenos. the clan i was in you had to kill 750 xenos in a starflea to be able to join. the record? 9 hours.

i completed vanilla sp in a starflier:
lets turn this tinker toy into a weapon

cos vanilla the npc's aren't really worth the effort.

the disco sp? forget it. escaping with juni from manhatten to the badlands, got blown up EVERY time i undocked by the four capships outside (an yes i DID yell cap-whore at the pc)

the reason why i play disco is because of the npcs. Pvp is the same everywhere, the arms race of shield against supernova, but generally the experience outside of pvp on other servers is a little flat. the npc's are easy to get neutral to, and are generally weedy enough to just ignore even if they're hostile.

but here on disco, its the whole package... trading avoiding pc pirates, as well as npc is more fun than just avoiding pc pirates. the reason why i blew up those molly gunboats was not bravura, but because i couldn't get away cos i was being cd'd to hell and back, and the gunboats were pounding hell out of my shield. I HAD to turn and fight, and believe me, i loved the feeling of accomplishment as i popped the last gunboat.

i think if the npc's were made noobier, it would remove that sense of 'HAH! how d'ya like them apples!'

its really nice to have something to make you try a little bit harder... admit it, the fact that the npc's are harder than you'd like means that you just... gotta.... kill... one... more....

//dons flame retardant suit and hides

Bla bla bla.. I DONT HAVE TIME TO FIGHT NPC EACH TIME I JUMP TO GAMMA

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