[INVESTIGATING] Dora wingmen lack of tactical sophistication

[Rolds]

The Dora wingmen are kindof driving me crazy. I'd love to boom and zoom with them but they end up turn fighting with everything. In a 4v4 fight in which I lead a group of D9's on excellent vs. a group of spitfires on normal which start lower and slower than us I cannot figure out any combination of commands that prevents the D9 pilots from turning with and being 100% destroyed by the spitfires. I can't even get them to follow me, within a certain range of the spitfires they engage even without orders and will not respond to any command I give. I would love to have them re-join with me at higher altitude but again once the fight starts there appears to be no calling them off. The first part of this problem I know will be very difficult to solve as it would require a significant re-work to the ai, but if I could even just have the dora's disengage and re-form on me rather than fighting to the death that would be helpful. Thanks!

[IronJockel]

Tactics have sadly never been a thing for AI units in any sim so far.

[gavagai]

Tactics have sadly never been a thing for AI units in any sim so far.

 

Sad but true.

 

For the AI there is a simple hierarchy of what beats what, no matter the skill level you set:

 

Spit>109>P51>190

[philstyle]

AI combat routines were being "re-written" at some point according to a news item from ED last year (November?) however we've not had any update on this now in 7 months...

 

For now, there's basically nothing you can do about this apart from just wait . . . for an unspecified amount of time until the routines are updated.

[NineLine]

I'll ask about this, I know I have seen AI doing all sorts of crazy acrobatics, so you would think they could be made to Boom and Zoom, even if we had to order them to.