Will you have NPC's crewing a ballistic turret are they aware they have a finite number of shots, and how do they pace themselves?asked by Vacation
TL;DRNPCs will be able to crew stations such as turrets, and the AI should know its weapons, pacing ballistic shots when ammo is low, though early AI may be less sophisticated than later versions.
Well, yes we'll definitely have NPCs, they'll be able to crew various stations so turrets, engineering, communications stations, all that kind of stuff. And if they are crewing a ballistic turret, part of the idea of sophisticated AI is for them to know their weapons. If they are using an energy weapon they know they can't use it too much or else it's overheating; a ballistic one they should maybe make their shots count, if they have not so much ammo then maybe they won't be as liberal with shooting as if they had lots of ammo. So that will all be part of the AI.Obviously AI is an ongoing quest; we'll constantly be working on it and improving and adding to it. So the early AI may not be as sophisticated as the stuff we'll have later on down the road but all those will be factors that should and will be considered in the AI.