A thought

[Baltar]

Knee...jerk...pack parroting.

Bots and bats are part of the balance of many ships in many mods--and the "no bots and bats" is a big PVP rule on the hard core PVP servers. It doesn't overtly help or hurt rp and by the way--why don't we just get rid of guns? Gee.

Yes ... I used to be a member of Procyon ... heavy PVP server where the use of bats and bots in combat was frowned upon heavily. Only poor combat pilots used them. The good pilots would only use them once their opponent was destroyed.

Trouble I've come across here on Disco years back was when a CT would park next to me and my opponent and continually resupply him with bats and bots. I'd have him on a sliver of a hull and next I know he's regenerated again. Used to also come across people that would slaughter their own NPC's to harvest their bats and bots ... ANYTHING to stay alive and claim victory. Bats and bots only make for long fights. And there's seldom role play involved when they're being resupplied by traders or harvesting their allies.

EDIT: This is why I avoid getting into PVP here. Too many people abuse it and use game mechanics to get away with it. In role play ... how does the combat pilot have time to conduct a ship to ship transfer of bats and bots from a transport? And how is it these guys can go back and dock at a base of NPC's he just shot up to get their bats and bots?

Bats, bots, trade lanes ... what else needs to go?