Why so many bots(AI)?

[PAKSAO]

I playing online much of my time, and i notice that on servers is many bots, and i swear i will net enter in any server where i see bots.

If i want to play against AI i have single player option, thank you.

Am i alone?

[Blackrat]

Originally Posted by PAKSAO

I playing online much of my time, and i notice that on servers is many bots, and i swear i will net enter in any server where i see bots.

If i want to play against AI i have single player option, thank you.

Am i alone?

I think the mission builders are experimenting with full scale ongoing battles ATM, its all WIP so until the limits have been found things may well be bit different. I understand also that players can jump into the AI too, so if a bombing raid of AI is launched players can take over the raid.

Sometimes AI also make for a good objective in the mission, I am sure when we get 128 players on servers AI will not be needed.

[PAKSAO]

Maybe but every single dogfight against AI is not inspiring..
Still cant beleve that people like to play against AI in mp servers..

[ZaltysZ]

Lets not forget that by default every plane left by human is automagically occupied by AI. If you choose to create your plane group, and decide later to change a plane (create one more group), previous plane will be handled to AI and it will happily fly it around. In most servers the huge amount of bots are result of such default behavior of game (inpatient players clicking "Create" multiple times do not help either).

[Gollum]

Originally Posted by PAKSAO

Maybe but every single dogfight against AI is not inspiring..
Still cant beleve that people like to play against AI in mp servers..

Agreed,
I hate nothing more than spending all my ammo taking down a plane just to find out it was a bot. I also heard of this AI taking over when players leave. Thats bull.. If a player leaves his canopy should explode from the 9mm round he put through his head and the plane should plumbet to the ground giving the pursuer the kill. I find that sometimes I'll shoot up players and then they leave mid fight so I only get an AI kill.

I for one agree with OP and would like to see no AI in any MP servers...( except maybe bombers ). Maybe...

Considering my buddy and I only play this game to fight other players it is really disapointing flying over the channel to take out AI.

Still loving the game when I do meet other players in the sky but I would kindly like to see this revised.

-Gollum

[Blackdog_kt]

This is not a fault of the game design, it's perfectly possible to fly online without any AI at all.

It's just a preference of the people running the server, trying to populate the map and create some action so people don't just fly around in that big map with nothing to shoot. Like others said before, i'm sure that when multiplayer is improved and the sim optimized even more, we'll have little use for AI because we'll be able to have 128 human players.

As it is now however the AI is needed to fill up the map...for example, if there's only 20 people flying around on the channel map, they could very well spent all their fuel without finding a single enemy aircraft to shoot at.

[mcler002]

I only use AI bombers in my online map...

The max amount of people i have seen on any online server has been around 30 - 40 ppl, but even then... we all seem to miss each other half the time lol!

The AI bombers gives a target to players, but also means that the opposing team could provide escort!

Ross

[BadAim]

Nice video. That should be the official trailer.

[squidgyb]

Originally Posted by BadAim

Nice video. That should be the official trailer.