AI aiming at blocks

[Winterhome]

Right now, turrets have this really annoying problem where if they're mounting Cannons or Beams, they'll eventually cleave clean through a ship and stop doing real damage. Kinda hard for your turrets to kill something if they're shooting through a hole that goes clean through to empty space. Before the HP update, turrets just core drilled, which was fine for then, but this is now and it needs a fix.

Can we have AI fire at the nearest block or something instead of just at center of mass? This is a pretty big annoyance.

 

[BDLS]

Donut ships OP

 

[Planr]

I knew there was a reason why cops liked donuts... now I know why. Clearly all cops play StarMade and know that donut ships are well protected from weapons fire from AI, so naturally they eat donuts in hopes of becoming donuts themselves so that when they're shot at by the unlawful, they will be ok.

 

[NuclearFun]

well, if i would play PVP i would abuse the hell out of that...

 

[spacie]

Agreed, and to illustrate the issue:

 

[Planr]

You can also make it even more difficult for AI to touch you by just making a dumbell-shaped ship and then removing the intermediary bar, so you just have two spheres/discs/whatever shapes spaced very far apart from each other, comprising the ship.

 

[Pacific_Jim]

In the release thread for the HP update Schema did mention that AI will eventually aim at systems.

 

[Planr]

In the release thread for the HP update Schema did mention that AI will eventually aim at systems.

you mean, aim at chunks with actual blocks in them?

 

[Pacific_Jim]

http://starmadedock.net/threads/sta...battles-also-boarding.8139/page-5#post-120561

By the sound of it specifically system blocks.