AI Miner gets attacked by hunters.

[アルゴリズムマスター]

Well I suceesfully set up an Ai Miner who can mine when I am even not in that sector. The problem is that they sometime get attacked by hunters. If I give it weapons, it will try to mine with the weapon, which I think is, well, no effective. If I don't give it any weapon, it will be "too weak" and therefore chased by hunters. Any good ideas on this?

[Dakota]

If you stay out of the sector then no enemies will spawn in the sector, you could try quickly moving the miners where they need to go, telling them to mine, then getting out of dodge before hunters show up. Could also do this while bringing along a warship of your own that can kill the hunters incase some pop up before you leave the area.

[アルゴリズムマスター]

But... I indeed stayed out of the sector when the hunters showed up. When I was in another sector, there's a indicator or stuff telling me that my ship "XXX" (name) is under attack. I quickly switched there and found it with only half health, with the hunters trying to connect me. Seems that the aliens only show up in your present sector, hunters don't,

[Dakota]

They may need escort ships then. Shielding on the miners so they don't die quickly would also help.

[アルゴリズムマスター]

Probably giving it lots of shields will make it seem "stronger" to avoid hunters, but it would be too expensive. You are right, I am going to build some escort ships.

[DracoNB]

You have two options:

1) Put big guns on it but "disable" them, by assigning them a hotkey and then pressing that key to turn them off.

2) Place an escort ship in the same sector with big guns

Either works, but yes the special Pirates (Prosomething) will attack you if you have a red and maybe even yellow indicator at the top of your screen. They will also warp with you to other sectors and hunt you down to kill you.

[アルゴリズムマスター]

Well I didn't realize I can disable the weapons even it is driven by AI. That's a good idea, thanks

Originally posted by DracoNB:

You have two options:

1) Put big guns on it but "disable" them, by assigning them a hotkey and then pressing that key to turn them off.

2) Place an escort ship in the same sector with big guns

Either works, but yes the special Pirates (Prosomething) will attack you if you have a red and maybe even yellow indicator at the top of your screen. They will also warp with you to other sectors and hunt you down to kill you.

[Dyna]

I had 1 miner and 1 defence craft work all day long for me while i was out and gather reputation and upgrades.

The miner got 2 long range cannons and 2 salvaging turrets and how do it work ? The cannons are set on AUTOFIRE and set on key#2 It salvage while the cannons focus on enemines only :)

So get some independant targeting weapons for the salvager.

[Dyna]

Hmmm appears that i am at war with the factions i the zone that the salvager work in.

Guess that is how the AI works in this game...... Looks like i will be the only faction in the game with this AI behavior evetually. Not what i want at all but hey the AI on my ships seems decided to screw everyone over.