[Fury]

Would it be possible to have a yes/no flag in ai profiles or something, that would reverse effect of difficulty slider on friendly AI? As going through half of all ships and turrets in every mission is serious pain in the ass if you create five new AI classes (or more depending of mod) for that purpose.

In other words when this flag is enabled, on very easy friendly AI would be like hostile AI on insane of same AI class. This prevents friendly AI becoming completely useless in lower difficulties and actually becoming useful. Whereas on insane friendly AI would be retards and player gets exactly what he ordered in terms of difficulty.

[chief1983]

It always seemed that some missions were too hard on lower difficulties because you need your wingmen to exhibit some level of competency, especially when fending off bombers from your escort ships.

[Fury]

Exactly, this feature request would fix that.

[Sushi]

Of course, it would seriously suck to play on Hard or Insane... you'd have utterly useless wingmen when you needed them the most.

[chief1983]

They should probably be as capable as they are now, and just not get stupider at lower difficulties.

[Fury]

Friendly AI should be equally capable in all difficulty levels? The problem herein is that what difficulty level is considered a good balance, unless it could be a variable in a flag.

[Tolwyn]

For Saga's plot characters I created one single AI class called "wingman" which simply uses 1.0/100 values for all difficulty levels.

[Aardwolf]

I believe I posted something about this phenomenon a few weeks (maybe months) ago.

My suggestion was to just have alternate AI classes, like what Tolwyn said.

[Fury]

Alternate AI class would be sufficient in a case where you want to apply this to wingmen only. But if you would like to apply this to all friendly ships including their turrets, it's a lot of trouble.

[Tolwyn]

Couldn't you just specify default ai class in ships.tbl?

[Fury]

That's one way to solve this as long as you clearly have two sides that don't use same ships. And assuming fred2_open has not saved AI classes in the mission.

[Tolwyn]

True. You would need to go through each mission and delete ai class flags.