NPC player ships

what if, like Saturn company, we have phoenixes, liberators, etc... on the different maps, like the npc aliens? like on x-1, only phoenixes, but they are passive. x-2 will have aggressive liberators and phoenixes, but the liberators react in about the same time as a noob liberator, and so on, so in the Pirate maps, there are fast reacting, almost FE golioths. the NPC player ships will shoot at other aliens, like real players, (with circling, etc..." but the ships will only shoot at someone their size/strength. also, the ships will have designs, but as mentioned above, will activate skills in a similar fashion as their player counterparts. this will allow noobs to understand how the game works, the strategies, and for the tough guys, this would be like a practice. I haven't decided on the armament, but if this idea goes through, please make the armament fair.

 

Correct me if I'm wrong...

Here's a bit more of a breakdown on your idea

Jupiter​

• 0-1 5 of every ship except: Citadel, Aegis, and Spearhead. All of which are non-fe / almost-fe.

• 0-2 5-Liberator (All almost-fe) 5-Piranha (All almost-fe) 5-Nostromo (All almost-fe)

• 0-3 10-Nostromo (5 fe, 5 almost-fe) 10-Bigboy (5 fe, 5 almost-fe) 5-Leonov (2 almost-fe, 3 fe)

• 0-4 5-Bigboy (All fe) 10-Leonov (All fe) 5-Vengeance (All almost-fe)

• 0-5 5-Vengeance (All fe) 10-Goliath (All almost-fe) 5-Spearhead (All almost-fe)

• 0-6 10-Goliath (All fe) 5-Spearhead (All fe) 5-Aegis (All fe) 1-Goliath (UFE)

• 0-7 5-Goliath (All fe) 3-Aegis (All fe) 3-Citadel (All fe) 1-Goliath (UFE)

• 0-8 5-Goliath, Aegis, Citadel, Spearhead, Vengeance (All fe) 1-Goliath (UFE)

You can figure out the design if you want~

 

Not exactly... I'm saying that on 1-1,2-1 and 3-1, there are weak ships and the quantity and strength increase with each consecutive company's maps, so on MMO's 1-1, there are noob phoenixes, on 1-2 there are phoenixes that are stronger, but not Sub-elite, and maybe throw some noob Liberators in the mix, and on and on. So x-1 will be the easiest and x-8 or 5-x will be the hardest?

 

So your saying instead of having their own maps, they are in ours?
I would keep it the way I have it; they have their own maps which we can roam around in. It drastically keeps the lag down.

 

Lol, no.​

 

so, u mean there can be a fe aegis npc trying to solo a cubicon, and I can shoot him off it and take the cubicon for myself?

 

No thank you. I don't believe we need AI for ships as well as npcs. Are the game servers that dead?