so, It occurs to me, that bots have all the energy weps available. But never rockets or missiles. As is such, noobs never have any experience fighting against these, or dodging them. How bout some upper level bots which use those kinds of weps.

imo, these would be among the most fun bots to fight.

Imagine fighting a bunch of these, with them constantly spamming. THe radar screen will be full of little beeps :).

Anyway, I agree it'll be good training.

Better still :

ROCKETBOTS!

GATLINGBOTS!

Would be nice, but how do you intend on handling ammo? Do they just have infinite ammo, or do they need to reload? Where would they reload, back at the Hive Queen? I'd actually like that a lot... nice way to hunt Queens.

We used to have rocket-carrying defbots. They were in Warthogs and had Sunflares. They also had infinite ammo, so they tended to fire immense amounts of rockets. However, now that the AI has been given the ability to dock, it probably wouldn't be too hard to make a rocket bot...

Put TyCorp Assaults firing Geminis in the presence of Queens. When they run out of ammo, they "dock" with the Queen somehow and get reloaded. It'd also make the Queen's escorts far more formidable :)

arklans full of rockets.

well, as far as the ammo issue, I think that docking might be a good option, or a special delay in their firing times (if infinite ammo is used). I spose most of these would have a secondary energy wep, which would keep firing during the delay.

Ion Storms would be murder. Please introduce this feature gently so traders and noobs can adjust.

just put them on higher level bots, like prosus and arklans - things that generally aren't found in the "good" parts of space. If they get killed by these high level dudes, then really, they should be more careful and plot around. What might be fun are robotic "missile colliers," basically a special collector bot that jumps into the system when a bot runs out of ammunition. The collier and the assault or guardian bot then docks with it, and suddenly has ammo again. It'd be cool because then the bots would have occasional vulnerable moments when the player could swoop in and bag a kill. Although, at least the guardians should have probably one energy weapon so when they run out of rockets or missiles, they could still fight - just like players.

bots with the gatlin turret? sounds to me like softy2 doesn't get enough practice dodging the AGT. :)

/me tells Sebastian to load up a hog and go hunting. >:D

anyway, sounds like a cool idea with missles... maybe a little more experience with those bots?

awesome suggestion shape.

DO IT!

the rocket bot exists in the form of the wildly kamikaze Aerna Seeker.