The NPCs are ok, but even if you did change the bots/batts, someoene else would make a similar post on this forums saying the 'AI dont regen enough', or words to that effect.
I for one quite enjoy blasting NPCs. It's free loot, free practise, and a DAMNED sight more interesting than trading. My only wish is that there were more difficult missions against fighters... Oh and missions in these new systems...
Okay that's two wishes, but what ya gonna do?
Ed: Well because me and these three chicks decided to have a cereal fight.
Ed: Then we got productive....
Ed: IN THE SHREDDIE TOWER MAKING DEPARTMENT.. before you say anything...
Dave: I feel like standing in the middle of the beach stripping down naked to put on a hula skirt playing pan pipes whilst I watch a pixie try to make love to a cow and have the evil sock goblins chase the 5 penguins of the Apocalypse across Timbuktu all whist my wife Sammie drinks vodka and red bull served by the rich penguins in the sun.