I read through alot of suggestions and didn't see any about hired support. I saw repair bots or drones and yeah i think that they might inpacted on PvP unless you restrict them in many ways then they don't effect PvP very much. I think that you should be able to buy like two support ships to fly with you. Small, weak, lightly armed and light arromed ships even repair or scanning ships or decocys. If your a miner they can be a deturent but easy to destroy and there only service is to help insure your escape to a space station. Or if your out there in hostle territory what the BLEEP are you going to do if you got your big exsspeive ship and can't go to the space station to repair, WTF are you going to do. Go all the way home no just use some repair drones and hope that your defince ship well protect you for 10 minutes. What if your one of those people who don't have friends to play with who needs them if You buy a few bots. Limit them and there fuction and make control cammands easy like use promts and a turrtal missions to train people they could be a great part of this game univers. What do you think? I can name 50 other games I have that you can always get some bot help.

Lord Galamushi

(you will get to know me, rich and lots of time to waste)

You need to go do your search again…

News Quote:
Wednesday, June 29, 2005 What's Guild Up To?

… Possibilities including hiring users/NPCs to trade for you (even while offline), or mine for you, or defend your personal station, or perhaps even hire mercenaries to attack other players and NPCs. All of which are entirely feasable with this new development work. …

John "Incarnate" Bergman
Managing Director, Guild Software Inc.

The Search function does not cover the News section, so he's got an excuse. You should have a look at the News link on the top of the left hand margin of this page.

Know that "In Progress" is no longer in use.

Anyway, your suggestion is so good that it was anticipated and incorporated even before you posted it.

No FM, there are several posts about this subject as well, I just knew where a dev response was, which is what I posted.

Then he must....

SNARFLE THE GARTHOGG!

Anyway, I'll add this thread.

SORRY guys there were so many theards to look over I did miss the idea i had and I didn't think that I would be the only person to think of that. I just thought that i would put it out there to see what other people thought of the idea of having hired bot support. Thank you very much for your comments. And it's nice to see that the people working on the game are reading these things and making commit one them thank you for that.

Thank You
Lord Galamushi