Rhyme
Of course I do. It's quite disingenuous to counter with how your ship would do AI vs AI considering that your ship is quite a bit more expensive, as well as having much much more firepower. Your ship vs my ship (AI) and you took 6k in damage. My ship against your ship (AI) and I took less than 1k damage, mostly just armor hits from missiles (edit: that was missiles from the Crescent Wrath. I took no damage against Rhym's ship).
BountyBrainHard does focus all their fire on one area.
My test is a much better comparison than your test. Yes, all ships are designed to be played intelligently by a player, but there is almost no difference to the way you would play your ship vs the ai. Besides, anyone can stack a ship with electrobolts, cannons, some armor, and a bunch of forward thrusters and shred any other ship.
Why was my test essentially equivalent?
1) Your ship would approach from the front to try to catch me because your forward thrust is the best. I would slowly approach and when i was in range, I would begin to shoot at the tip of your ship. Then what?
2) Your ship rotates to its broadsides. My rear thrust is faster than your ship's side thrust, so I would wait at a range where there was no fire taking place.
3) I would fly in for as long as my shields would hold leaving a margin of safety to allow to me back off without taking damage, at a close enough range that your firing arcs would be forced to hit my shields more evenly. I made sure to stay out of the fire of your 4 grouped electrobolts. I wore down your rearmost shield and slowly destroyed your rearmost components over the course many "guerrilla strikes". I couldn't do much damage at all before my shields got too low, but I would back out and fully charge and then go back in.
You really couldn't have played much differently than the AI did. Well that that I think about it, your ship could thrust more to compensate, forcing my ship to stay at the front half. But I was still slowly wearing away at the tip of your ship, trying to get at the first reactor.
I would suggest adding another shielding at the back, and to maybe to add some large lasers concentrated at 3 and 9 o'clock.
