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Funny AI tricks

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Post Thu Mar 20, 2003 7:17 pm

Funny AI tricks

I was pulling into planet and right before I started to Dock, I watched 1 massive frieghter try to go behind the docking ring and the planet and impale itself on the planet... Then 5 seconds later I watch another frieghter do the same thing.

So now I am sitting looking at all this pretty wreckage and a watch as a piece of the ship comes to rest right inside the planet docking ring.

I ask for permission to dock and I get it... as it cuts to the docking sequence I watch my ship hit the wreckage bounce out side of the ring and land on the planet....

Foo2
-A church with a lightening rod shows a decided lack of confidence-

Post Thu Mar 20, 2003 7:48 pm

hehe Ive seen that too, dumb trannies : D

Post Thu Mar 20, 2003 8:03 pm

I love it when a transport docks with the planet gates but the escorts don't. The escorts try to follow the transport into the planet and crash into it. LOL!

Post Thu Mar 20, 2003 9:05 pm

yah sometimes im going to dock with the planet or trenton and you see all these fighters go "aahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh" and they burn up..
Phoenix out


From this celestial bough all but one did fall into the pitiless fires of reach.
A soldier’s ignominy to have dreamt while his brothers bled. But oh, for the rest of us his shame was our salvation.

Post Thu Mar 20, 2003 10:15 pm

I watched one of those long trains get "sucked" through the trade lane gate sideways. That was funny to watch.

I've seen way too many freighters crash into planets to marvel at it anymore. I only wish you could tractor their cargos afterwords.

Post Fri Mar 21, 2003 5:47 am

I was traveling along a trade lane, I forget where, and just stopped for some odd reason, but I turned around, and saw two ships going toward each other (outside the lane), then I got curious. I waited and they NAILED each other, now I thought, they'd move out of each other's way, but no. They continued pushing each other until both blew up.

Post Fri Mar 21, 2003 6:48 am

I was docking onto a battleship, when suddenly as I was about to enter the docking bay, a fighter ship shoots out of the very same bay I'm heading into... smacked me something good...

-Annilyna

Post Fri Mar 21, 2003 7:01 am

The thing that I like about the whole "freighter crashing into planet" thing is that sometimes the texture for the freighter will get stuck on the bitmap of the planet (or whatever texture they use for the planet). This gives the illusion of a really BIG crash site. Just an observation that usually gets a chuckle from me. Cheers.

Post Fri Mar 21, 2003 10:57 am

I accepted a mission in the Omicron system. I had to kill some Bounty Hunters the mission waypoint was next to the sun and when I arrived and got ready to fight all enemies blew up in the sun! I didn´t fire one shot and I got a lot of money for doing nothing!

Post Fri Mar 21, 2003 12:59 pm

nudging someone while docking is always funny. Flying people formed on you and cooking them on a planet or sun is funny too. I've never witnessed any ship crashing into a planet yet. I feel like I'm missing out lol. I was fighting before and a couple of ships ran into eachother still firing and one blew up once before.

other wierd bugs : my friend got stuck in docking mode one time. It wouldn't let him afterburn or engage cruise engines (which isn't good when you are being hunted down) or even engine kill. Basically he had to keep doing small afterburns until he got to a base and docked

I experienced a pretty weird one where I docked with a trade lane but never went through it. Instead I got to have the little trade lane effects swirling around my ship every where I went. The trade lane motion would always continue in the same direction even when I turned my ship. I had to restart FL to get this one to go away.

Oh, I haven't seen a ship fly into a planet, but I have seen one fly into a mine field before. lol

Post Fri Mar 21, 2003 5:14 pm

Is it me or are theire 2 types of jumpgates (not the wormholes) one that forces you to fly in a small ball of enerige and one that speeds you up like a tradelane and then changes color to the wormhole.

if you have a good ship, try to fly in to a planet whit your after burners on, you'l hit the survece before you get toasted.

Post Fri Mar 21, 2003 9:15 pm

Ah, no. The funniest thing that you can do is ram a freighter as it's docking and it'll spin while falling toward the planet. You can also fly into the ring and enter the planet in a funny way!

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Everybody else thinks you're an ass.

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