well, I've just spent a few fairly intense and fun hours botting in s4, i must say its mighty fun to bot when the bots aren't spread out with 5km distance.

The pathfinding seems a bit weird (bots keep going even if you pull up behind them and shoot) however, the tightness of the sector makes it playable. This leads me to wonder:

Is s12 the only sector where the bots are -really- far out?

Huh? I've followed Recon bots 20km out before, measured in distance from the wormhole opposite station. In ASCII:


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[quote] spider: Is s12 the only sector where the bots are -really- far out? [/quote]

I think not. I've been botting in s6 and they're pretty well spaced out there. S4 is better you say? hmmm... maybe time to up my approval rating in the Itani home sectors.

Maybe it's just me but s12 seems to be a larger sector than either s3 or s4.

It's common to chase a bot across the entire sector in s4. I don't know what you are talking about, and would like to know what spot you were at if they were that close together...

Starfisher: Heh, I've been botting for hours in s4 now, and they are close together. very close together, as in you even see them on the radar.

Head off to s12 and do some botting and you'll see what I mean.

Recons you usually can't see on radar... Although I found a spawn spot in 4! There's, like, 20 bots about 15k from the s8 warphole on a diagonal from the station.

lol roguelazer

I've found similar "spawn spots"... I'd kill a bot, only to have one trying to kill me just 100m behind... and another one, and another one O_o

s12 is spread out across the two arms of roids...Is on the s13 side and IIs on the s5 side. They do further spacing and sometimes change sides.

s6 has it's Is and IIs mixed along the roidline. They also space out farther.

s4 is like a poi pond. The Is and IIs are mixed and seem contained by the roids. The only spaced bots I've seen in 4 were recons and IIs that spawn farther out.

yeah the side of the roids that are by the planets backround have the drone Is and the side with out any planets backround has the drone IIs

The fact that bots disappear over time makes it much worse, cause there aren't enough bots to go around now. We're about to fix that, and add some more goodies with client 3.4.5. Woo.

YAAAHHHH WOOOHOO

/me gives a1k0n a big slobbery kiss!

Huzzah, less messed up bots!

/me gives a1k0n a can of mace.

More goodies?! Define "more goodies"...

Goodies to a Dev may be hell for players! :P