Just to make it clearer the bot will not follow once you move I guess.

I'm not surprised if most players say no: most have a second account or more just to follow the other.

Edit: I still don't think is good mechanic so should be nerfed, this would be a good way to get newer player involved too. Either way the role of the follow has to be filled by something else, best way I think is for bots to be less dependent on a follow logistic role bot.

Agreeing with merkle really. You would just set something up that does the same thing.

I'm sure it could be done with some interfacing program (which is against the EULA mind you, although we have no way to detect such thing...), but that requires effort as opposed to having it working out of the box in the game.

I honestly think the checks and balances in game are fine for follow bots. The hard limit on remote amps for instance. The way NPC's spread wear is another.

Far more important imo from a multibox point of view is industry and liquids.

If follow bots were overpowered you would see folks routinely using them and in big fights using multiple. It does happen ofc but its the exception rather than the rule and people don't generally do more than duel box.

On one hand do I want to only use one account for pvp at most times? My god yes I am so sick of having to play 3 different guys just to be as effective as another other person. Now from an industry standpoint or just walking around for that matter, it would make it stupidly hard and annoying to people.

please spend time on more pressing issues! The same thing is possible in eve with approach and its easily countered in pvp by kiting the enemy in to crappy terrain or buy e-war. Having a follow bot is also a liability as well cause if your in a running situation you have to watch terrain/speed and lock of that bot as well. One well timed ecm and suppressor cycle followed by a good attack can ruin a persons follow bot. In essence you can literally only do one thing on one screen unless your using multiboxing/client software which is forbidden as far as I can remember.

Cant approach something or be approached while pvp flagged. Nerfs combat follows, doesn't make hauling such a PITA.

The proposed solution is so bad that I would vote "No" right now.

I don't want following 'killed', it just makes it slightly more complicated to use combat follow bots without effecting indy bots 'in transit'.

With either PVP or lock, a combat player can always just have a dedicated 'follow bot' as an intermediary bot. It would make more interesting engagements, since the 'follow bot' would be a prime target; do I need to explain why?

Personally I would prefer the lock, it's something that the player has control over; that is they can drop lock to follow if needed, where flags have to time out.

This poll is a joke & the fix Zoom has proposed is lol.
I get a feeling the No vote will be strong given how broken Auto Pilot can be.
Among many other reasons.

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 ?

FYI, I voted yes.

"Perhaps its a situation where the mechanics don't allow 'follow' and 'lock' the same bot."
Changes very little, makes it marginally difficult to continue to do what we do now.  But I see Khatar addressed this.  (We as in everyone who plays.)

If you want the simplest solution, remove follow altogether, and sort everything else out later, and slower.

I would like to state that Hunter called this about three months ago. 

Thats fine by us, we'll point out the only reason the poll passed is because everyone with 10+ accounts can vote Yes on each account, because you promote multi-accounting and Pay 2 Win.