AI + Cloak

posted on June 16th, 2009, 8:59 am

Would it be possible to make it so the AI can't see your cloaked ships? I had just had my base wiped out by the Borg and was harrassing with 3 groups of cloaked Sangs, but the AI would just park enormous fleets on top of my ships all the time. When I eventually died and saw the minimap, there was an continuous line of ships stretching from their base to where my cloaked ships were.

posted on June 16th, 2009, 10:20 am

hm, actually that should be fixed. i haven't seen that behavior for a long time now...maybe it was just a coincident?

posted on June 16th, 2009, 10:41 am

Probably was a coincidence, I cloak often and the AI has never attacked or seen them. They have no trouble with ships cloaking, but never seem to notice ones that are already cloaked.

posted on June 16th, 2009, 11:10 am

It's not a coincidence.  If you cloak and retreat, you've gotta go at least 1.5 screens away, otherwise the AI follows you around.  I tested it using B'rel for high-speed hit'n run.  I had them following my cloaked B'rel in loops.

posted on June 16th, 2009, 12:21 pm

It's not a coincidence.  If you cloak and retreat, you've gotta go at least 1.5 screens away, otherwise the AI follows you around.  I tested it using B'rel for high-speed hit'n run.  I had them following my cloaked B'rel in loops.

Yep, they would follow my ships wherever they went. No chance of it being a coincidence either - my ships were the only ships left of any non enemy race on the map.

posted on June 16th, 2009, 12:27 pm

It's not a coincidence.  If you cloak and retreat, you've gotta go at least 1.5 screens away, otherwise the AI follows you around.  I tested it using B'rel for high-speed hit'n run.  I had them following my cloaked B'rel in loops.

yes, that's what i have seen too, but believe me, it was much worse in the past where the ai was still able to shoot at you while you were cloaked in retreat...so it's not entirely fixed but for now it's all i could do about it

the issue i was talking about above is that if you park a cloaked vessel somewhere, that after a few minutes "coincidently" a whole ai fleet gathers around you...that should not happen anymore

posted on June 16th, 2009, 1:13 pm

Does the AI use the Tachyon scan? The only time I ever seen them use it was as that Fed probe cruiser.

posted on June 16th, 2009, 1:19 pm

they do, sometimes.
try to park a cloaked scout in their base. after a certain it gets destroyed.