Makes things interesting I guess, otherwise everything would either be extremely easy or extremely hard.

There is a simple explanation: they use modified company versions of that ship type.

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In the strat guide you can see there are up to three versions of each ship, with some beeing special builds...

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Maybe computer AI is getting so good that NPCs are actually learning how to reverse engineer their own game code and modify their ship stats!! It's starting!!! We've given birth to the most powerful intelligence imaginable and now it is starting to take over our world and use our own tactics against us!!

Save yourselves!!! Terminator 2 wasn't a movie, it was a warning!! The Matrix wasn't fiction, it was a future documentary!!

RUN!!

(I think I need my morning coffee...)



Those are my thoughts, not yours, I'm WapCaplet[!

Or it could be that since the AI ships generally don't have a really good shield regen rate they have to make it up somewhere!

I've noticed that the large cargo haulers are liars, too. I was hanging around a station and heard a cargo ship say it was going to the station to pick up water. I scanned it and it was empty. I watched it dock (outside the station), waited till it left, then scanned it again. Nope, no water. I hailed it and the pilot said he was carrying WATER someplace. Scanned again, nope, water still failed to appear.

So I shot him with 6 Class-6 weapons... and a couple of torpedoes for good measure.




(... and, of course, he didn't drop any water.)

And the cops cheat, too. I had some cops trying to scan my cargo after I'd gone to cruise, and they followed me for a long ways, slowly gaining on me until they were in range to perform the scan. I had no contraband, but I still grumbled about them being able to go faster than I can.

I hit afterburn followed by the "z" key in order to escape some Corsairs that were chasing me. I was coasting along at 198. They slowly gained on me. When my speed slowed below 194, I kicked in the afterburner again to restore my speed, and continued coasting. They kept closing, shooting all the while. Long after the best afterburners would've died out, these guys were still gaining on me. I gave it up and jumped through the next trade lane gate I happened upon. Yeah, they cheat. I suppose it makes up for their lack of bots/bats.

u can cheat too... try being say abiut 3 km away from someone, then hit formation... u will catch up.. dispolayed speed is 300 m/s, actualy is higher...

and if ur in a titan with 6 class 9 guns and a class 10 shield, who NEEDS to cheat?

Remember, on a scale of 1 to Awesome, I'm Totally Great

oops . . . i seem to have done sth wrong. . . posted reply for this thread in another one. . . well, wats done is done. .. well, i had the formation idea, but nvr bothered to carry it out. . .

presently, my world is upside down, so if u do not mind, u'll have to tok to my a$$