I think Calvin was refering to you in the end ...

Moderation is always handy, but could we get back to the topic?

I agree with the risk you take to deploy each time. And that risk is getting blownup (yes evenf or miners).
But as I see it the biggest problem are the SO that are hard to near impossible to avoid or run away from. Or you have to drop everything on a miner for speed. This I don't think is a healthy balance. You should be able to still reap decent rewards if you fit for survival of the SO. How this is done depends on how the devs want to balance them out.

However the devs should still avoid it to make them the most profitable farming for combat orientated players. It will be hard balance to find, but I'm sure with the feedback in this topic and perhaps a discussion where the devs would join in would bring in a desirable result for all.

From observations it's obvious that the Nianis suffers from serious ADHD, since they never cease to move it isn't that weird that they interpret everything that doesn't move as a non-hostile vegetable (not worth wasting ammo on).

Or we could get a module that makes your bot look like a palm tree and stationary for three hours?

That's not the point. Hunter has some decent ideas sometimes (they are just few and far between).

Yes, there are grand observers which can be spawned by artifact hunting.

nope, there are grands too.

actually it should be a chance of 3:1 that its a grand observer roaming on alpha 2.

You can find Observer, Grand Observer and Super Observer.
They are like 1., 2. and 3. Stars. Don't know if there are Observers equal to 4. and 5. Star atm but maybe they come with new Islands/Mechs (I heared somethink about a "Destroyer" class Mech).

Anything, including Lemon and Pit Fiend, can die to the right amount of bots/ ewar.
I am curious what type of observers they were, Superior or Supreme? I had a friend pop an Observer III site on Beta, get instalock and die to the 3 Observers that spawned. Since Alpha Observer III sites spawn a Grand Mech and Assualt, I was curious what the Beta site spawned?

There are two separate issues here:

1) Players that have no intension of fighting an observer getting popped or losing their container due to it timing out.

First, I think Observers should be easy to avoid, especially on alpha where it's become a case of knowing where they tend to go.  This means reducing their agro range and possibly decreasing their masking.  Also I think they should show up in a different colour on the map/overview.  The current gameplay mechanic of having to check the names of the NPCs is not that problematic but its annoying and nothing is being gained from it.

Second, roaming spawn speed should be slightly increased.  Deployed container life times should be slightly increased.

2) The combat power of the observer once engaged
I don't really care about this one

p.s. I actually think that NPCs as powerful as observers should not move around on alpha, they should stay put.
p.p.s. Maybe these suggestions would not work in practice but I think it wouldn't hurt to try.