While reasonable sized planets hitting bots for easy roids is lame, its really not any more lame than a reasonable sized planet hitting smaller planets. I know id rather seem hitting the boy planets rather than the unsuitable real targets as its not adding to the woes of players at or below the bot planets level.
And while the bot planets aren't ideal they do serve a couple of purposes.
The first is it provides a added level to the game so the lower end do not have to resort to cannibalising each other. It can be a problem when the lower end of the game just feed off each other and keep each other down.
The second is it provides a 'training area'. Something which keeps alot of people down is fear. Picking on bigger targets is somewhat unnatural and breaking people of this mindset and fear can be tough. These bot planets can be used to highlight the possibility and be the first step in getting over the fear. At F-Crew we have had a few of our new, small members have a run at these planets so they can get used to a bcalc and start to get over the fear with the knowledge that there will probally be fewer surprises to initially catch them out and it has seemed to help get them ready for a proper target
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Originally Posted by Mzyxptlk
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Posting an IRC log like this one as a suggestion makes for shitty reading, please state what the hell it is you want.
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Mzyxptlk is right, you shouldn't be posting IRC logs. It doesnt present a well formed suggestion, is hard to read ect ect. It really wouldn't have taken much to summaries the discussion and would hve been much more useful.
Normally the thread should be deleted but i'll let you off this time but in future please stick to the forum guidelines