Are all NPC pilots suicidal?

Even on my first mission in MP when I had crappy Lv.1 weapons and a slightly less crappy Lv.2 shield and went up against equal ships in greater numbers they all rather faced death then using the escape pod. Is the escapepod ejectbutton not installed properly? Is it extra? Or do you get a message from the friendly computer saying &quot;Sorry, your screwed&quot;? <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Edit: Corrected a typo. Edit: Removed links. --------------------------------------- FL is good, but watch out for the X-Universe. I am a bad man! No links! *Slaps self* Edited by - Cmdr.Wiggin on 16-03-2003 00:10:02

Maybe I should spellcheck first and edit later, yes? <img src=smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

Sorry about the links in my signature, now removed. Read rules first, then post? Damn! I always get that part wrong...

interesting idea... thatwould come in handy when u think of it... capture an order person and sell it high price to liberty <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>... talk about reputation. Phoenix out <img src=´http://members.shaw.ca/electricbrain2/phoenix.jpg ´> 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.

If escape pods were treated as commodities, then the pricing would get weird. For instance, you´d probably want to break it up by faction, so you have &quot;Liberty Navy Escape Pod&quot; and &quot;Liberty Rogue Escape Pod&quot;. And then you´d price what the different factions would either pay for it, or what the reputation change would be. A Rogue pod would be wort a lot to either the Liberty Navy (capture), or the Liberty Rogues (rescue). But not worth much to the Golden Dragons. Personally, I´d find it pretty annoying to have six different kinds of escape pods sitting in my cargo hold. You could do &quot;homogenous escape pod&quot;, but then all you could really do it sell it. Big deal. Course, ejecting from YOUR OWN ship might be cool. Say you´re aligned with the &quot;good guys&quot;, and you eject surrounded by pirates. Well, you would be forced either to give up just about all of your stuff as ransom to get away, or you could keep most of your stuff, but be &quot;impressed&quot; into joining the pirate cause. Or, you know, reload your autosave <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> ER

That´s a kick ass idea, it´s a shame they didn´t think to put it in the game. And if you couldn´t be bothered shipping them around you could just drop the resued pilot of at the nearest base or (if your feeling evil) eject the pod into space and blow it away or better yet, eject it into a Medium White or the atmosphere of a planet and watch it buuurrrrnnn. <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

Sounds like what we used to do in Pirates! after we captured an enemy captain.

After you tractor in someone you should be able to tell them you will dump them back in space if they won´t give you all their credits.. Now that would be fun.. Give me the Money of die in space, you have the right to choose.

Hehe, how torturous that would be for the escapee... Pay, only to be dumped back into space to be picked up by some other sadistic chap. Course, by then he/she wouldn´t have any money to pay.

Here´s an idea along those lines, but potentially harder to implement: have the ejected pilots be considered different ´commodities.´ If you bring in a Liberty Rogue to a Police Base you trade him/her in as a bounty, but if you bring a Liberty Navy pilot into a Rogue base he/she gets sold as a slave. Would kind of bring back the glory days of selling slaves in Privateer. Cheers.

That would be a serioulsy cool feature, but I seriously doubt it could be done without an official SDK or if M$ and DA are actually reading this stuff and they take pity on us and release these features in an expansion pack.

I still think someone should add &quot;slaves&quot; as a commodity. I loved buying and selling people in Privateer. (I´m totally against slavery in the real world, however.) <img src=´http://portfolio.iu.edu/dwanasel/flsig.jpg ´>

The NPC´s ARE really suicidal! I always hear them on the radio, &quot;This guy´s too tough, I´m bugging out&quot;, then I get attacked by a swarm of their puny fighters that blow up in like 2-3 shots! They should listen to whoever advised &quot;bugging out&quot;! I mean &quot;Really&quot;! Can you imagine 2-4 Xeno´s deciding that they´re a match for someone in an Eagle, Titan or Sabre with level 10 weapons and shields? The conversation would have to go something like this.... &quot;Yeah, I know he´s got 10,000 in Armor and another 10,000 in shields... I know our weapons only do 90 damage, while his do 700, but there´s 3 of us and only one of him and well, I think we can take him! We´ll just wear him down. He´s probably a lousy shot anyway! Come on!&quot;

That would be fun! Hehe, I´d do what my Corsair buddies do to the people they catch snooping around: Keep them in their Vac-Suit and strap ´em to the back of my ship (like a waterskier), then go through a jumphole. That would open up a WORLD of possibilities. ---------------------------------------- I do what I must, when I must... ---------------------------------------- -MEMORIAL- Those who turn their backs on history are destined to repeat it, doomed to be conquered by their forgotten enemies. -MEMORIAL-