Santa Bots Passive

Okay, so remember what I said about referee bots being incredibly annoying? No? Yeah. Story of my freakin' life.

Yeah, I was wrong about the referee bot. Because the santa bot makes the referee bot look like the nicest guy in the world. I can say without an ounce of doubt this is the most annoying NPC in DO I've ran into so far. And yes, I'm accounting for protegits. Do I even need to explain what the problem with this REMOVED is, do I really need to say anything? This thing can completely freeze my hunting for like five minutes before it gets bored of staring at me from outside the DMZ and flies off to go REMOVED with someone else. Not to mention that its stupid lightning bolt thing that jams up your controls hits halfway across the map. And you know what? If I really thought these things were worth my time, maybe I wouldn't be so REMOVED, but no, they take forever to kill and the rewards I could've made faster by just killing Kristallons. I'd like to meet whoever at BP came up with this idea so I can force them to try to farm lordakias in a peanut for ten hours while having that thing follow him around. And I would do so with an honest-to-God smile on my face.

Look, there is an incredibly easy way to fix this. Just make them passive, like Streuners or my good buddies the Kristallons. It's so easy. It's so freaking easy. People that want to hunt them won't be bothered, and people who don't want to bother with them won't have to deal with them riding their ass all the way to the DMZ. The way I see it, BP has absolutely no excuse not to fix this. This is a very obvious blemish on an otherwise perfect and fun event.

 

I agree. The Santa bots are so annoying. People would rather have them not online at all. The rewards suck, and the abilities it uses on you are really annoying. For me, raise the reward, or get rid of them.

 

Perhaps you are looking at this wrong. Not completely. The Santa bots do suck if your out trying to get them. Not worth the time or ammo. But if your hunting they are not so bad. I have caught several people working on them and taken advantage of issues the Santa bot causes.

Hyndkill

 

Perhaps you're looking at one tree in a forest of problems. If they made them passive then it still won't be a problem for you. There's still going to be people wanting to hunt santa bots out there for you to bother. The difference is, people not working on them don't have to be bothered by them, because if they don't want to attack it, they're just going to chill at the DMZ until it goes away. And 99% of what I do is farming, and they really, really suck for farmers. We're not going to leave this because they give a slight hunting edge to the hunters. That's not fair, the advantage you get is tiny compared to the pain in the ass they are for the rest of us.

 

It would be nice if the Santa bots only shot when shot at because when i cube sometimes i have had the santa bot come and shoot me and it gets really annoying sometimes and increases the damage a lot! +1

 

I don't what santa bots your talking about. But the ones I know on x-2 give the rewards of a no and have 300k less hp. They stay at this ratio as they gradually get harder as you progress in maps.

 

I hate these Santa bots. They're so annoying, changing your controls from half way across the map, whizzing you so you freeze and next thing you know KABOOM and just generally being a pest.
BUT if you think of why others hate these things they'll give you the same reasons and here is where you can exploit these reasons when you're hunting.
-You're chasing someone who's slightly out of your range... Ho ho ho Santa bot comes and spins em round and there is your kill... what a nice present from Santa!
-What about someone you're PvPing... whizzed by a Santa bot and bam they freeze, although they're still shooting you, they've frozen and here you can do all sorts, mines-cos they cant move- emp and they'll sit there helplessly whilst you eat them alive!
-All the people sitting mid map trying to pop these damned bots, all you have to do is brace your self for the santa bots lightning bolt and then let the killing commence
Santa bots aren't all bad, you just need to know how to use them to your advantage

 

Despite this i still hate them mainly because they always, always get in your way!! Also no one ever kills them because the rewards that they give out are worthless and no one ever bothers with them.

 

Hello! The rewards are not worthless! They give as much as a bk for 300k less hp!

 

Yeh well BK's are worthless for me So santa bots are worthless to me as well lol

 

If nobody bothers with them, they'll get in other peoples' way as well

 

Fair enough.

 

Yeah, but you ever try dealing with one in x-7? Oh yeah. That's a REMOVED experience. You could take them to port if you want, but it takes so long some hunting goober's gonna fly in and make you jump because you don't have your good ammo ready on hand. And then when you jump back and it already ran away, and there goes a crapton of your ecos.
Look, I don't see any harm from simply making them a passive enemy, and we're not going to cripple our farming, questing, boxing, etc. for a few players getting a hunting edge. The OP'd hunters in this game seriously don't need any extra help as it is. You can survive without the santa bot flying around being bitchier than a spoiled cat.

 

The ones in x-7 maps are still really easy to kill and also give bad rewards and yes o agree that it wont do any harm to put them as passive.

 

Santa bots come around once a year. Deal with them and move on.

And please watch your language.

 

x-7 ones yes, are easy to kill but they take forever.
Why though, when this is an incredibly easy problem to fix? And this isn't just this particular binary bot, all of them are really annoying, just this one more than others. If you care about the game, you should always be looking for ways to help improve it, big change or small.

 

the bots are annoying the wizzing i dont mind just the change of direction when chasing someone .-.

 

honestly the santa bots are useless and not worth the ammo (even though i use x1 to kill them) i solod one in x-8 maps the ones that give the most reward .... got 600 uri.. couldve just killed a cube and got twice the uri...

 

Yes they are not worth the time but luckily we only have to put up with them for Christmas

 

I think they are quite funny, when you get use to the reverse lighting it is easy to control your ship, except you can't pick up cargo.