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Chris McMahon -> RE: spaceport AI battle control is very strange (6/24/2014 7:01:12 PM)
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I have huge issues with the AI of fixed installations.
I normally use missiles and phasers, both weapons types have no distance penalty, so this issue wasn't as noticeable to me before. Anyway I decided to try plasma weapons this game with a 2pt per 100 range drop in power. Boy was that a huge mistake!
Now my bases will target ships at the very edge of their range, ~650 or so, with a huge -14 damage effectiveness drop off. My old missile and phaser bases could easily take out a group of 10 or so pirate ships, but my plasma bases fire at the furthest enemy in range and ignore closer enemies who would take more DPS due to lower range drop off. Now a group of 3-4 pirates can take out my stations.
Add to that that the bases spread their fire over 4-6 ships at once, so instead of overwhelming the shields on a single ship with a massive barrage of fire, destroying it and moving on to the next, they plink BBs of half a dozen enemies at max range, who can regenerate their shields due to how little damage they are taking.
Also I heavily arm all my mining stations. In fact my mining stations are ~2-3 times the firepower of my most powerful ships. However the mining stations don't seem to fire when enemies come into range, rather they wait to be fired on first. This is huge issue with pirates as they come in close and drop pods which either capture the base or steal resources. And I too have noticed my point defense never fire on inbound pods.
I have all my designs set to "all weapons" "all weapons" "never retreat".
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