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"Realistic/Fair" Difficulty
Hi there...

Just installed FS2 again and updated to SCP3.6.12. For the next playthrough I'm trying to beat the shivans on "fair" terms, i.e. my ship takes as much damage, has as much energy etc. as everybody elses (= the AI pilots). Now... which setting would that be?

 

Offline General Battuta

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Re: "Realistic/Fair" Difficulty
Insane. Preferably with Fury AI.

 
Re: "Realistic/Fair" Difficulty
What he said. There should be a topic on Freespace modding with the lastest version of the fury AI

EDIT - http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=76330.0

 
Re: "Realistic/Fair" Difficulty
So ... every difficulty below insane gives your fighter boni? And I thought medium would be fair...

 

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Re: "Realistic/Fair" Difficulty
Retail AI profile gives you 50% bonus to weapon recharge rate even on Insane difficulty. Everything else is equal on Insane though.

 

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Re: "Realistic/Fair" Difficulty
So ... every difficulty below insane gives your fighter boni? And I thought medium would be fair...

Correct (though even Insane gives you some bonuses, as Fury said).

 

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Re: "Realistic/Fair" Difficulty
On the other hand, after seeing how AI attacks capships, I'm starting to doubt if they use up weapons energy at all.
AI is always cheating in a few places, such as not needing to lock missiles or having inhuman accuracy and perfect situational awareness.

 

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Re: "Realistic/Fair" Difficulty
« Last Edit: May 27, 2011, 09:03:57 pm by Darius »

 

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Re: "Realistic/Fair" Difficulty
I'm starting to doubt if they use up weapons energy at all.
They do use weapons energy and can also deplete it.

 

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They do?
Then why they're capable of pelting a capship with Maxims way longer than I am?
I've never noticed sustained Maxim or Kayser fire draining their power.

 

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Re: "Realistic/Fair" Difficulty
I've seen it happen.

 

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Re: "Realistic/Fair" Difficulty
Would it be realistically possible to have an Ai_profiles setting that forced AI ships to actually acquire aspect lock before launching aspect seekers?  Does the game not bother to calculate that sort of stuff for non-player ships?  It looks like most other things can be made "realistic" in the tables, as Fury's insane BP AI demonstrates.

 

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No it's not possible because one would have to create a method of simulating aspect lock indicator for AI controlled ships. That wouldn't be easy. AI however does use +Min Lock Time.

  

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Re: "Realistic/Fair" Difficulty
Perhaps an "AI Minimum Lock Time", which would only affect AI (could be calculated using how long, on average, a human player takes to lock a missile).

 

Offline General Battuta

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Re: "Realistic/Fair" Difficulty
Perhaps an "AI Minimum Lock Time", which would only affect AI (could be calculated using how long, on average, a human player takes to lock a missile).

dude

AI however does use +Min Lock Time.

 

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Re: "Realistic/Fair" Difficulty
They do?
Then why they're capable of pelting a capship with Maxims way longer than I am?
I've never noticed sustained Maxim or Kayser fire draining their power.
That's how it seems for me as well.

 

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Re: "Realistic/Fair" Difficulty
Perhaps an "AI Minimum Lock Time", which would only affect AI (could be calculated using how long, on average, a human player takes to lock a missile).

dude

AI however does use +Min Lock Time.

No. I think what's he trying to get at is trying to simulate the effect of an AI struggling to get a lock without it being at the players expense.
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Re: "Realistic/Fair" Difficulty
Indeed, the idea is to have the value calculated on the average time it takes the player to aquire a lock, which is longer than minumum.
Perhaps it could also be slightly randomized.

 

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Re: "Realistic/Fair" Difficulty
I think Insane AI is as far as a realistic living junior pilot would go.
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