I have a couple of suggestions for botting. Firstly there could be a mission where a player is required to eliminate a bot taskforce spotted at a given sector. Obviously the player will be told the threat level of the taskforce before they accept the mission.
My second suggestion is along the lines of the one above but is not really a mission as such. At the moment I’m botting and doing short trade routes between just a few systems, however, I would like to venture out and explore the Vendetta universe. When I do so, I would no doubt encounter the odd ion storm or two. This, at the moment will leave me two options, I could turbo out and continue on my way or I could stay and fight. Turbo-ing out is OK and it has the less risk, but what’s a game without risk? So I stay and fight, but for how long. All the time I am there the bots will keep coming so I would invariably stay until my ship has sustained too much damage to continue or decide enough’s enough and I move on. Whichever action I decide to take the results will be the same, there is no sense of achievement. OK I may have destroyed a few bots but there is still the same amount as there was when I entered the storm. However if there were a fixed number of bots in the sector, I would have the opportunity to clear the sector and continuing with my mission (maybe receiving a bonus along the way)