Players are continually answering Container's issue with the game directly, he just doesn't care.
Let me boil it down so we can move on.
Roaming is a player initiated activity, there's no game mechanic that requires or directly rewards roaming; looting players is part of killing a bot not particular to roaming.
Up until this last patch, there was nothing that required any one to 'answer' the roam. The most effective answer to roaming is to watch the gates and retire to an outpost until the roamers left the Island. Even with the patch, and the new plants, your better off NOT guarding the plants to keep the location secret.
So, to counter the 'dockup' issue, players use fast bots to get onto the Island and catch group before they can get back home safe.
Fast Bot roaming becomes the defacto PVP activity in Perpetuum because its the only way to get any PVP action unless there is an Intrusion; I'll add that civil wars generate more and better PVP than either intrusions or roaming, but they are unpredictable
So, Container, I fully understand WHY you want mechs to be viable in roaming, its the ONLY consistent PVP action there is in the game.
The reason you are getting so much Anti-mech change pushback is because the state of roaming developed natuarally from the current game mechanics, but you want the devs to change game mechanics simply because you WANT to use a mech to roam.
Roaming with mechs isn't going to generate MORE PVP.
What you should be asking for is the devs to generate more opportunity where mechs do generate MORE PVP.
I fully expect container to ignore this post and continue his campaign. You see this type of thing in WoW all the time, where someone comes up with a totally crappy Rogue spec than generates any and alll arguements on the forums for why the devs need to buff the spec because its not viable. Not every bot is, or needs to be, useable for every activity.