The Titan Dance

Annoying as hell

from Sins Forums

You could almost run the chicken dance song to this annoyance.

 

You jump into a system with your Titan (Or Capital Ship). They have a Titan (Or Capital Ship). Their Titan runs. You chase. You jump a few seconds after they do. You get to the next system over, and they're already turned around and powering up their phase drives. You turn and follow again. I was curious to see just how many times this would go on before I finally wore them down. 14 times. 14 Jumps before I finally did enough damage here and there to blow their titan to bits. How much damage did I take? Almost none. Not sure why the computer has this idiotic programming to "run like a mofo" at the first sign of trouble. 

 

Side note: Finally went through an entire game without a crash. Amazing.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

The AI tries to preserve the Titan and constantly uses the "retreat" function. Unfortunately that function atumatically chooses the closest jump point, making the thing jump back and forth. If you want to safe time and effort, place half your fleet at each entrance/exitpoint and bomb the frick out of the Ship that is behaving like so. You may even be luck and break it out of that beaviour, if the Ship doesn't consider you fleet a threat anymore.

Sometimes if your fleet is just a little stronger in fleet points spent the AI will also attempt to jump back in again after retreating just cause they got one or two frigates extra (tipping th balance "in their favor"). They won't even wait for their ships to heal, so you may end up with a 10% HP Titan coming back with a battered fleet just cause they now have few new LRMs.

 

tl;dr version: AI acts stupid. Ever has, probably always will.

I just hope they get the AI back to it's diplomacy skill-level where it at more or less acted like a "decent" first time player and not like a complete troll.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Yeah, every time it did it (it was rebel advent) I swear I saw it trollololol me. Russian style.

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