It would make chemical and plasma bombs useless unless you wanted to up their damage radius significantly.  Having very high radius chemical bombs is a good thing in my opinion.  Plants are a commodity that can be a part of corp PvP.

Maybe a good time to remove wall decay and give modular walls more of a reason to exist?

Yes I can finally shoot my way through a blocked entrance, which is much easier than carrying bombs around all day. Should take you longer to shoot plants and clear an area, so a higher hp would be a good idea. Griefing would just be added content , which I am not against and would bring more stuff to do in a sandbox game.

Wall shooting would be a problem for defenders, might need a hp balance, taking everything into account there are ways to shoot walls anyways so I think it is way better to be able to shoot walls directly.

+1 for griefing alpha symbionts.

Alpha shooting is an interesting question. Sure, PvP-flag someone who shoots a plant, but will that help anyone who sits in a harvester bot and gets griefed by a pimped heavy mech? Imagine said guy locking plants which immediatelly get butchered one after the other. Repeat until ragequit.

If it costs 10k NIC in ammo to kill a plant with 5k NIC worth of raw mats, then its balanced; if its reversed, were the ammo cost is significantly less then the griefing, than it's broken.

Not to mention that flagged pimped mech soould also get honorable mention in general chat, and could easily spark some nice PVP on the alpha islands.

Basically, give plants a small low surface area, but not so many HP's.

Some heavy plant hunting could raise the organic market price, make sure ammo does too, but anyhow that's sounds reasonable.

Supply and demand should cause the price of ammo to rise, but even if they are baking thier own ammo, the price of the plants will go up and make the ammo that much more expensive anyway. Of course, if you want to really split hairs, you could shoot plants that aren't needed for the ammo type your using....  <.<

But, even so, the small hit surface is going to mean a lot of missing, which was really frustrating when trying to shoot cans, and would make repeated griefing of a harvester on alpha irritating.

As a side note ... <.<  symbiots can carry weapons  >:)

TRAP!!!

Is that possible to make shootable non-harvestable plants only?

+1 to shooting plants but please give a buff to chem bombs in aoe explosion range (make it like 250-400m )

But i kinda agree with syndic. if this takes more than a day of coding... who cares.

True Pros make a Podcast to influence the Devs minds, 
The rest of you guys are Hacks

PS. I got my Highways & stopped playing b4 they came in & have never used them! ...... Irony much ?

Yes to shooting plants.

Yes to PvP flag for shooting plants.

No to increasing plant HP. They are used for cover in PvP a lot and I think that their HP are nicely balanced for that purpose.

in generally, if it can be done easy then i would say yes do it.

but in general i think its no good idea on alpha. one true thing is that there are always stupid ppl. and there will at least be one who will be running around alpha killing plants like hell. in alpha you are under syndicate protection. so platnts might have the same

for beta and gamma i would say yes this is very good and nessessary.
walls and wall repair nodes will need a significant boost then, but thats another thing that is easy to to.
in the long run we will need way better stuff to handle plants on gamma, and a lot stuff have already been sugested, but for now i think this is a good solution for now.

Certainly Celebro, but I wouldn't get too carried away with dreams of people waging plant-wars on each other by killing helioptris/prismo/triand on alpha/beta. Nobody harvests on beta anyway, and its a case of too-much-effort-too-little-gain on alpha. Resources are plenty on gamma as it is. It's another micro-feature we'll nod our heads and say it sounds cool, then never(if ever) actually put it to use. 

It's quite handy for blowing yourself a passage tho.

Having ewar/enwar killmails is still more important by leaps and bounds to most people playing the game then a lot of stuff they're putting out. EVE has POS, EWAR, ENWAR on killmails. People compete in DPS on POS killmails and make a minigame out of it. Some people get a pound of coke and spend a weekend setting up 70 POS's.