Vo lacks the ability for players to have bots that protect them. Even though some missions come with a wing man it still doesn't suffice. Players should be able to purchase their own bots and customize them to there liking. The more money, the better bot. Players couldn't buy more than five bots, to avoid large armies, and bots would be deployed manual at the selected target or automatically at an attacker (can be changed in the settings). These bots would have to be repaired and restocked at a station, just like a ship, different stations carry different bots, new bots are unlocked as your level progresses. These could also add to the mining franchise, high storage bots mining several ore rich rocks, making mining much more efficient.

There is actually a mission at the Valent statios that gives you an attack bot.

And you can have up to 3 of them at a time.

Kudos for the idea, however...

It's because the friendly bots thing is still being tested. There are a few missions on the test server that deal with this. The bots still tend to be a little...odd sometimes. I think mining bots wouldn't be too hard, but the aggressive ones are a kinda funny sometimes.

just use the same programming as the enemy bots' they just follow you until deployed.

I think that would make the bots *almost* useless for defending a player. Have you noticed how easy it is to kill a bot? even the higher level ones? They're really only dangerous in packs.

Yeah, well, if you're attacking my bot, I'm going to be performing the function of a whole pack of stygian furies: carving you to pieces while you're focused on a different target.

Personally, I want a pet Helman Overseer.

And I want a godlike bot that doesn't do anything except for follow me around and mine when I do the same. Naturally, I wouldn't be able to collect the ore from the bot. Sometimes, I just get so lonely!

Lecter: You're thinking too small, what about a pet Queen or Levi?

I like the idea of "escort" bots and the like that you can hire/purchase, the only problem is limiting the number you can have, and then figuring out not only the dynamics but all the programming.

I know this topic has come up specifically relating to Capital-class ships before, and whether ships like the HAC and Connie would be able to deploy NPC-fighters while under Player Control.

pets? wtf is this wow in space?

[pets? wtf is this wow in space?] - Peytros

With better graphics.