It's the general consensus that Guardians are more difficult to kill than Assaults, but Assaults give more XP, so nobody really goes after Guardians. I think maybe doubling the XP rewarded for killing Guardians would be more in line with how difficult they are.

Yeah I totally agree with this. Why does anyone hunt Guardians?

I also would like to see the AI for some of these bots get a revamp, and chuck some random variation in there, make them act a little more like players.

Guardians are much easier... They never hit you, and you barely have to dodge. (No, I'm not counting the Assaults' strafing exploit)

I bot exclusively on Prosus Assault, and barely take any damage, but onto the topic at hand. IMO, ALL the posts around the queen should give better xp and the queen her self should be added to the advanced combat mission, or a Hive Queen mission should be added that allows you to collect even more xp then an upgraded gauardian would. At the moment, the only reason to kill a queen at all is to get the mega positron blaster, once you have that (at 10 kills) your done with her, no more reason to even try to kill her any more, other then for personal whims.

Increase xp for gaurdians!!, and give xp to queens.

sometimes i botted arklan guardians in a rag III with 3 neutrons
and 2 queen guns with mouselook off and autoaim off.

the main reason was that i hardly ever had to aim at the things.
they are huge and they cant dodge very well.

guardians are only 'hard' if you go out with some tiny
ass ship with 2 smalls on it.

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however, i cannot understand why dentek assaults,
hellman overseers, queens, etc, are not on any of the combat
lists for giving xp...

it just makes no sense.