Ship combat

August 31, 2007 5:10 PM from

I've been on a sort of mini hiatus with the beta and I'm currently downloading it all over again so I hope I'm not out of date but this was in my head all summer.

I was just interested to know though...

Are the ships(excluding fighters/bombers) still sitting stationary and exchanging weapon fire?

Are there any thoughts of the ships having their own AI 'maneuver' routines when engaging the enemy? Or is it unnecessary given how hits/damage is calculated?

I liked the idea of smaller corvettes moving around the capital ships by themselves, keeping themselves as moving targets, albeit in a slower manner than fighters.

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Reply #1 August 31, 2007 6:19 PM from

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I did notice when fighting a Pirate corsair that it kept slowly circling my capital ship in the latest build forcing my capital ship to keep rotating to keep weapons on target. It was kind of a nice touch and added some movement. Now, I haven't really paid much attention in the cap vs cap ship fights as the last one I did involved 100+ ships and was lagging a bit so I couldnt see much of what was going on between all the weapons fire and explosions..

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