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Having played after the patch and now playing again 3 days later I do feel as thought they've reverted somewhat. The ships are still faster then me in my A-wing (with a 93 top speed engine) which kinda tweaks me still but their has been differnt movement then just jousting I've noticed. I've been able to menuver behind them more often now and when your in a group of them, they don't all flock behind you when your chasing one (the have a bit of variant flight pattern). This is a step forward.

After thought and listening to the positives and negatives to both sides on the AI issue I've actualy came up with a possible solution. Both Joust and bee hive flight patters are neither good nor bad really in challenge and fun. Either has their pluses and minuses depending on what type of ship your flying. So the idea would be to have each ship generate a randomiser (so to speak) that would choose one or the other every so many passes. Certain ships known for speed and agility might have a higher modifying for bee hiving while bombers and heavy flight craft (which could use the joust flight patter for missles and such) might have a modifyer to increase jousting possibility.

Comment on this or put forward your own ideas and please, do be constructive.