BlackArchon wrote:Paul, a few pages before we discussed some occasions where AI ships aren't well equipped. I just had another such observation: There was a Split Military Ocelot (and some escorts) in Family Njy attacking a damaged Xenon K. The Ocelot only used Ion Shard Railguns - with the exception of the back turret, it got PALCs. There were definitely no Plasma Burst Projectors. Quite sad to see this...
Well I can certainly make ESS more agressive in giving the best possible loadouts, but this would be at the expense of variety. ESS uses the same ranking system for all ships, so it has to be a one size fits all solution.
I spent a lot of time tweaking ESS to give varied but strong loadouts. The system isn't perfect, but I don't think I can make it much better without sacrificing variety. You'll begin to hardly ever see beam weapons on capital ships for instance, fighters will always be maxed out, etc.
Are you sure your install of the XRM is working correctly? Do you ever see ships with no weapons? Especially check paranid capital ships as without ESS working, they will almost always be unarmed.