This came to me while I was sitting in the docking bay of the frigate. A fury was shooting at me, but I was shielded by the docking bay. Since friendly fire was on, the fury ended up killing the frigate. My suggestion is to give the bots a line-of-sight check. Essentially, if there's something in the way (like the docking bay), they don't shoot, and preferably start to ignore you. This would add in fun new tactics, like hiding somewhere to lose a bot...

This has been mentioned already in another thread, and a1k0n said something noncommital. :) It might be in already, though. Try hiding in a holy roid in sector 17 to see what I mean.

PS: The bots were shooting you? Strange... They usually won't shoot anything within 10m of the frigate, and won't shoot anything within 100m unless it shoots them.

what it could do is if the shot gets destroyed somehow it should move and try again, rinse and repeat 3ish times, then it runs away.

I'd like to be able to bribe bots with /govemoney...or not.