For whatever reason, the bots in s8 have been super-aggressive and often "camp" the wormholes. I'm not really complaining about it (it makes the super-$$$-trade route to 14 more realistic) but I found it funny:

If one real player camped a wormhole, there would have been about 20 threads in here complaining about how to stop the exploit. But since they're bots, nobody cares, even though there are 4 or 5 of them.

Just an observation...

I think the bots follow someone to a wormhole and when that person dissapears the bots just hang around that area waiting for a new target. Not really camping, more malingering.

What, pirates camp wormholes? Pirates agressively chase potential cargo? (Ramjet is right, but the effect is the same.)

Seriously, I find 4-5 AI 'pirates' to be every bit as annoying as a human pirate.

My observation is that when a human pirates you, most people take it personally, but when an AI pirates you people consider it 'part of the game'.

Hmmm. I wonder if there is a lesson in that.

My second observation is that I'm willing to bet that 95% of the people complaining about other players behaviors have never played a MMORPG.

My third observation is that those same players probably have alot of experience playing single person games.

Just some observations...

What I think is that bots should fight each other when there are no human targets in range :)

bots used to fight each other.. however a1k0n (i think it was a1k0n) stated in another thread (don't remember which one) that with the new AI since the bots can dodge, they weren't able to kill each other, so while they bounced around the sectors dogfighting all they did was increase server lag, because the server had to track the shots that they qwere firing.

i think there should be less advanced bots. like have the equivalent of the old sc8 bots be more prominent and like have the advanced bots in sc 14

Hehe, just got an idea.
Bot factions!!!!
Bots will duck it out in a sector, each faction having 3 bots each, 3 factions. 1 bot is created 2 minutes after one is destroyed, and a bot faction can conquer a sector thus makeing that sector more dangerous. and every now and then a new bot faction will appear =)

Nah, the advanced bots are more of a challenge Wombatula. Takes a bit more time to work out a tactic to kill them, but when you've found it they're as easy as they were before.

It's nice having a mixture in the same sector as well, the new guys can blat the 75 Bounties and the vets can get the 150's.

Well, here's how to use that behavior!

All pirates need to modify their names. For example, Icarus shall hereafter be known as [NPC]Icarus!

Maybe we should be able to hire bots to act as escort, or to take out poorly defended traders so that we can fly in and scoop up the cargo with our Centaurs...