Gameplay case: I think as more aliens are added, esp. But when you say 'dodging' – ECM isn't really dodging, and there's both a realism and gameplay case that capital ships should be able to jam missiles effectively, if dedicated to it.

I just ran some Jammer-Sparrow vs Rainmaker AI test cases, and I can see the balance you're going for. It'd be a bit like how your chance of hitting in Final Fantasy games can be like 150%. Simply let tracking % go above 100%, and then cap probability at 1 in Projectile.cpp. complicated.Įdit: oh, and if there was going to be 'anti-jamming', don't make it another stat. But AI on AI encounters won't make much use of them. And that's even though I've implemented infrared jamming, optical jamming and (untyped, not actually using it) jamming, so the problem isn't even that in the whole game only (T1, weak) Sidewinders actually rely on a radar lock.īased on what I think you're saying, perhaps jammers are built to be balanced with anti-missile turret defences for a fast player ship doing evasive manoeuvres. And in my AI vs AI testing, no T3 jammer set-up will ever do a respectable job. But I've been set on having them use a Tier 3 jammer instead of yet another anti-missile turret. I've been working, this last fortnight, on some new (Tier 3) alien content. Offhand, I also think the Rainmaker (Mark II) might be the only ship variant with any hope of making your jammers look worthwhile: I've a feeling it's the only 'missile boat AI + only radar-tracking missiles' variant in the game. Is it fair to assume, that you're in a fast ship and doing a bit of player-level evasive manoeuvres? I've been looking more at what happens AI vs AI.

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