Piloting like the NPCs

Mon Mar 29, 2004 6:55 am by Capt Byron

Have you guys ever noticed that the NPC ships can corkscrew and do a bunch of other neat manuveurs. Can we (the players) do that or not, anybody know? Also anybody noticed that when autopilot takes control of a docking freighter it can pull manuveurs that you can't do in a light fighter.

Mon Mar 29, 2004 8:05 am by Megistos

NPCs in most games have the ability to do flashy things you can't do. Although, if you think about it, does it really help them that much? Not really...

But to the original question I don't think you can do stuff like that, no

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Mon Mar 29, 2004 11:25 am by Macaan

Well they dont have regenirating shields like "us"
Its there way of getting back at us, grr

-Therefore i am

Mon Mar 29, 2004 1:29 pm by Hengist

I can't remember which mod it is, but it has extra flight commands, like evasive manoever, etc... Perhaps that does a corkscrew? Dunno never tried the mod, hence the reason I can't remember it's name. I'm sure someone else will come along with it.

Mon Mar 29, 2004 3:22 pm by Puke Barwalker

Strange that we can't roll our ship ... but when you hit "go to" the ship often does a quick roll!

p.s. Annoying thing about Privateer was that your ship moved as it you were sailing an ice boat!

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Tue Mar 30, 2004 4:31 am by Hengist

Hi Puke,

The 'quick roll' you mentioned is the Auto-Level facility, which is enabled by default, kicking in.
This aligns your craft with the 2d planetary layout of the systems. If you bind a key to to Auto-Level in the options, you can then turn it off.

The reason I suspect that we can't do rolls is that they dropped the joystick. However you would think that they'd have left a 'roll' key in the options for us to press?
This is what I thought the mod did. I have it downloaded somewhere and will try it out as I'm now curious myself.

Hengist.

Tue Mar 30, 2004 3:56 pm by Silver Fire

Who Cares About Npcs Kick There A** And Go Opon Your Journey

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Tue Mar 30, 2004 4:06 pm by Eh_Steve

Uh, Silver Fire, Spam is a fungus, get the spray.

Anyways, I do wish that NPCs would get trickier so that I could face a challenge in my Hammerhead out of Sigma-19.

Beware the thwacking stick of Steve!!

Wed Mar 31, 2004 1:49 am by BlazeME

Spinning would only help with ships with large wing spans file an eagle. I think we should be able to do everything the AI do. Like Dying

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Wed Mar 31, 2004 8:39 pm by TommY_4_life

I think privateer is way better than freelancer in a lot of ways (yes...even ship design, but no not graphics), and i dont remember it being so hard to fly a ship in priv...(1/2)

Tommy out

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