Hello. I'd like to strongly suggest that the defense bots be given the weapons capabilities of the "alien" bots in s17. The vultures with frigate turrets and advanced turbo have really put a damper on what was once a very exciting and compelling CTF contest.

All capping now involves fooling the bots into chasing people around. If the defbots were like the alien bots, they'd actually be opponents that we could fight conventionally and defeat. I think this would result in a lot more fun for everyone.

Thanks. I hope you'll consider it. :)

Asp

its not a bad idea... the def bots have been a little too hard. dont get me wrong the itani capped 1 time last night and were going for another when i got off, but yeah... its kinda hard to have much fun capping when you keep dying during the cap...

course more expierenced players enjoy the challenge, so you have to make a compromise somewhere in between...

-io

They said the bots were tough because they're dumb. I have heard (don't know if it is true) that capping rewards will be nerfed after the dynamic economy is introduced. After that project is done, balanced, and tweaked to near perfection, I think the devs will start focusing on polishing up everything that has gone to hell. Flag capping for example. The devs planned on making the bots so powerful that people would have to cheat to beat them. I think they have succeeded.

Magus, the bots in the homesectrs use a slightly more advanced version of the bots in any other sector, all bots exhibit the same flaws, the defbots are just more apparent because you need to exploit those flaws to get a flag, because you can't fight it out with them.

I doubt the devs will be spending much more time polishing the CTF system, seeing as mission system will probably be coming soonish.