This has nothing to do with tanking... but the difficulty of play that should be within PO

But you see if they are randomly dropped there is a risk as they would be on island.

Now there is no risk and no pvp.

Guys its ok, The game is going in a direction of linear play.... DPS speed fit vs DPS speed fit.

There will be no reason to counter fit, tank, think while fighting soon. Its ok all you need to do is midnlessly run and lock each other.

Its to hard for some people to understand tactics and using there brain to figure out logical things for example.

Heres a fun fact.

When i was engaged for 2 hours against 12 players with a Dev watching and caused the first ERP Nerf, i only came close to death once. That was when 2 allied kains showed up and all of my attackers began shooting at them but kept draining me with 3 tyrannos with neut's. Little did they realize that when not firing they finally drained my cap, but lucky for me they were brain dead monkeys on a keyboard and let me sit there for 3 mins and regain my cap.

TL:DR sometimes not shooting first will grant you victory.

PS: i hated going 47 KPH

There is no difference... there has been no difference since the last major patch.

The difference NOW is that you can lock them ahead of time in hopes they are brain dead and dont jump.

Where you find diz.....

PS: when i taking you mining?

Whats a Roboknight....

And damit! im out of town :*(

Does this mean i get 20 mil?

Depending on the quality of the mercs you hired depends on how effecting/risky the operation is.

For example the only concern you have is to maintain a Hauler to Mined amount ratio. As long as you are close enough to a TP to extract if spotted and your can is sub a lithus load at all time. You could easily effectively ninja mine.

As far as having a decent merc corp this is how i would view it. Assuming you hired top tiered mercs who would insist on a reimbursement policy on their death this is how it would go down.

Assume you have 6-12 rivler mining with 3 pilots defending and 3 lithus running. Can is empty at all times.  now assume a 5 man light roam spots this groups of targets... They can take it so they do 1 of 2 things.

Call for zerg light assistance or fall back and take 30+ min to form a effective squad. Assuming you are within 15 mins of a teleporter you can safely extract easily.

Utilizing 2 TP's you can minimize the number of lithus you need.

Mercs role would be to intercept and protect the rivlers at all cost, includes kamakzing if needed. There are plenty of pilots capable of fending off 10-25 enamy players in 3-5 man groups.

And thus the mercenary Corp is born.

Ok Forgive me I shall Reedit this Post and put the Exact number in, Both will be just shy of 800m.  I will input the exact cycle times/Distance for both Gropho and Seth.

Swap to Long range ammo and add 2 T4 tuning for cycle time reduction

editing after lunch break

So I would like everyone to understand the kind of deep water we are treading in here with some of these suggested changes. As this opinion will be frowned upon by some of my corpmates.

We have 2 bot types that are high damage out put is controlled by two factors- Accumulator Cost and LoS. I am sure all of us have experience the damage that can be unfolded upon you by a few kains within LoS for any extended periods of time. Now this burst damage that the kains are able to put out however slows down once they are forced to regen accum in between shots. The same holds true for Lasers, however they rely heavier on crits to make up for the slight lower dps but increased range factors.

Now your gropho, can hit you for ever from behind a rock for very insignificant damage in comparison to the bots above. Now in order to off set this they arn't held to the same rules of LoS and burning high amounts of accumulator. This however can become deadly quickly when encountering 10 of these bots attacking speed fit opponents.

Now with that being said Lets look at how we can Improve these bots with outside assistance, but wait... that requires coordination and boring jobs. Why yes it does however i am sure a majority of you will be very surprised to see the effect i can achieve by using them.

Heres the Thought experiment. (lets focus on range since that seems to be the shiny here)

We have a Gropho and a seth bot fit for 800m Range. well my seth does so much damage but runs out of accumulator quickly so lets equip a bot with accum transfers for it so it can fire all the time. Now they both need Sensor amps so lets amp them.

Now that both our bots can lock and fire infinitly to 800m Lets go ahead and see if we can improve this.

Lets now bring in some Nexus's: So i can bring in a Assault nexus and a Crit nexus. This brings any decent pilots stats to the following

Gropho: 13-17% crit
Seth: 26-30% Crit
Gropho cycle:6
Seth cycle:2.1

Now unless i have guidance 10 my gropho is going to fail some rockets. But lets look at some fun facts now to see all you have to do to win.

So now we have 2 bots firing infinitly with one bot firing nearly three times in the time it takes the weaker damage bot to fire 1 volley.

What does it take to win? Superior Positioning and Support bots.

PS: Watch how long a bot lives against a seth firing 6 lasers and critting for just shy of 300 damage per gun every 2 seconds.

Now you tell me if you want to make me more mobile, better stable and base tank stronger. If i need to i will write up how i can out tank the server with resist bonus seth.

Just because a bot doesn't perform as well as another on paper self fitting does not mean it is under powered. You need to take in to account how these bots perform with support.