AI RP

[sadtranslation]

AI ID isn't bad, but without strict guidelines and obligin players to follow it it becames rather annoying. It's an ID that allows player to fly a Cruiser and follow his own taste in picking up targets. In the current state I see almost all the AI IDed players as players abusing the basic idea of AI roleplay.

So, Gaian ID (as well as some other) don't allow anything bigger than a gunboat, but that's not a problem. I can strip faction bank and buy a whole fleet of AI IDed Cruisers and then come to shoot BAF, Mollys or Outcast with them because I can.

And because I wrote a sweet story about Gaians reprogramming a swarm of AI Core vessels for their own needs since Gaians are clever and all graduated from Cambridge and other Universities blah blah blah. Does it make sense? A lot of people play their AI Cruisers as almost Nomad Morphs - cute, curious, willing to learn - but had you ever seen a Morph with Light Mortair?

The same comes for the Drones and Core Vessels that are roleplayed created or controlled by humans. I mean, what?

Within the inhumanly complex plating of this mysterious vessel pulses the life of a sentient machine. Cradled amidst miles of gossamer wiring a swirling maelstrom of electronic information is processed to form the mind, and control the body, of this delicate life as it seeks, and fights, to establish its own place amongst the stars. Powered by unknown technologies that allows it to tap into the fires of stellar bodies, this light craft converts the largely ignored energies of cosmic radiation for propulsion and firepower. (Artificial Intelligence Core Fighter)

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Within the inhumanly complex plating of this mysterious vessel pulses the life of a sentient machine. Cradled amidst miles of gossamer wiring a swirling maelstrom of electronic information is processed to form the mind, and control the body, of this delicate life as it seeks, and fights, to establish its own place amongst the stars. With delicate sensory equipment ensconced within the vastly greater hardened shell, this frame has been primed to trespass far beyond the confines set by the limited maze of jump holes and gates crossing Sirius. (Artificial Intelligence Core Cruiser)

Sure, created by humans, controlled by humans. Just remembered me of my old friend Bob.the.Nomad.

Please, make AI ID limited again, please, encourage the people who are interested in playing this role to join the faction that can keep an eye on usage of faction-only technology. Please, don't give kids the guns.

An AI cruiser attacking a transport?
I knew things were changing but I hadn't thought this had happened.

Hell, no. Luckily, all the engagment rules including prohibition of engaging transports in Capital Ships apply to AI ID as well.

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