Strafing

[TranquilRage]

I have tried this with a few designs. Please experiment and see how you get on.

1) Make a brawler style vessel. Set its acceleration to between 0.1 and 0.01.
2) Set its top speed to 5 or 6
3) Set its turn speed to between 0.5 and 0.75
4) Set its AI range to between 5 and 100
5) Spawn one in the top left of the map.
5) Spawn an alien dreadnought in the bottom right
7) Tell it to attack

Watch as it gains speed, decelerates to late, passes right through the enemy vessel and spins on the other side.

I made a ship called the broadsword that does just this. Makes a sort of vigorous thrusting motion. Equipped with short range, fast tracking weapons it does a surprising amount of damage to ships as it passes through.

Rather than implement a negative AI Range (something I now see as plagued with complications), could we have separate acceleration and deceleration values?

And those AI Profiles.

BTW Th15, I have a first class degree in Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence. If you want a hand figuring generic AI rule sets let me know, if I have time i'l assist.

[Captain Trek]

Lol, nice find TR. Maybe I'll try it sometime...

[The Infamous RayCav]

To a much more clumsy extent, the Zelus can already do this.



Of course this doesn't really add anything to the thread per se, but I'm just telling this because it was precisely this type of tactic that I used to dominate the Top 10 scores for all three game types back in .69

[Captain Trek]

The Zelus is a wonderfully overgunned little patrol craft, isn't it?