We used to have station defense turrets. They had boxy little models and sat outside stations, immobile and heavily armoured. Would it not be more useful to put a few of those around stations and give them a 600m range than to have Defbots of Doom? Perhaps Luis could even redo the model a bit (Hint: Homeworld 2 Ion Turrets)?

Why do I say this? I was just rereading the preview from release 3.3 and we're finally getting the announced features (fixed UI, user-creatable missions, NPC traders with escorts, fixed economy). Now maybe we can get some of the 3.1 features...

Lol, I agree Roguelazer, the deathbots of doom are actually outrunable, however provided they had four to five defense turrets around the station, I doubt you could get away.

I like it. Give them uber gatlings or, even better, those instant hit lasers that HAC class ships have. ;-)

I honestly like the fact that it's easy to get away from the bots. I think they're there to force you to leave, or make it difficult to stay. It's fun to try to attack your opponents (or conc mine them =D) while chased by strike forces and aernas. Anyone who's in the chaos at M-14 post-Deneb Run knows this.

The old turrets used railguns, not lasers of any sort that I can remember.

Give 'em Advanced Railguns and we're ALL set.

Well, hrm. OK as long as these are not "mann-able" turrets in tha stations.

If they were.... Then you'd get a bunch of itani-admired Serco folks sitting in Divinia M-14 and splashing every CtC voy that shows up. And vice versa at Catequil. And you'd get teams of folks occupying turrets at popular stations (E.G. Sedina L-2, D-14, Latos N-2, Odia M-14) and preventing people from docking.

So I'm all for this idea as long as the turrets are automatic guns or something, activated only when someone violates the NFZ... I recommend a combination of the old-style capship SuperAGT, some Leviathan-style gauss, and some long-range advanced railguns.

ONE MORE CAVEAT: These weapons must be out of range of all the wormholes. Otherwise racing thru serco space for me will be a death sentence. Damn Serco put stations at every frikkin wormhole, it seems.

The old rets had blue lasers.

I'm all for turrets. And those turrets were unmannable (and should stay that way).

And, LeberMac: What do you expect us to do? We wouldn't like more nukes dropped on our planets. Heavy defenses slightly dissuade from trying to do so again.

I'm thinking AGT fire...
Man that looks cool when you got 8 some odd turrets shooting at you.
Sure it sucks for lag but who cares!

LOL Kix - ever been on the receiving end of a Superbus's 8 L ports equipped with AGT's? Big fun.