"we are the Borg, resistance is futile"
can you make it have green shields?

much better then the one in the blog.

now, what would a waspish torso on scarab legs with arkhe head look like? you know, we are missing at least two tiers of glider , and that one could be a VTOL config with medium missiles and a machinegun.

Sure, but that would have to be a different kind of shield module

I tried to attach the Scarab legs to anything, but unfortunately nothing covers it even halfway, and it looks bad with all the cables and stuff cut in the air and going nowhere.

This actually looks promising.

Please for the love of god don't release them all at once. One a month with a balance patch for the previous months robot gives you a years content and will build a population.

Also skills - add new skills making these something to log in and aim for rather than instant gratification.

And as an aside, add around month three or six a redo of the gun faction ammo. It sucks.

No you scrapped it as you couldn't find a way to balance it.

Ok, I get it Zoom.

People have been asking for "stuff" for, well forever.  Its never enough, its not right, this and that. 

Do this correctly.  Think past all this stuff, do it right, logically, and sensibly.   Your adding in a new "people did this" faction thinking it will get a boost of what you have.  This isn't needed.  Save this for later.  Build on the colors of what you have. 

Here is what you do, start out with the small things.  So lets pick the  Ikarus, and the Hermes.  These are logical.

The Ikarus is nian, and fills a roll that we need.  The Hermes is the New "faction" bot as its what we need to do stuff and explore.  So we made it to find those artifacts. 

Next is where we deviate from your plan, go to a roll that we need/want. 
Lets pick something small. Light Assault Ewar.
This is from the example above.

Fill all of those out with all the RBG colors and see what your player base does with them.  Fix OP where you need to and direct energy into it. 

Lets do another example.
Um...Let me see.  Light Expanse Bots.  Again were STARTING small.

These boni revolve around Damage, and Range, however are slower, and lower ROF using Medium Weapons.

Using are logic that we established from the earlier postings.
Red - Uses Prom Base, Blue Legs, Head is Green

What does this Mean.

Legs - Its the fastest as its using Blue Legs, and Blue Resists.
Torso - Uses Red Damage Baseline/Range Baselines.
Head - Uses Locking, Locking Range Baselines.

Now from here, as your using a logical progression, you can then tweak and balance what you need to.  Range really high on all of them across the board?  Whats the DPS look like, is it burst damage?  What type of damage, LOS filters into this as well.  Now take all to that stuff, and see what the sever is doing with it.  See how people are breaking them, then fix them.  This is should be done on a monthly cycle that everyone knows about. 

Example.
Introduction of new Bots.
2st Month - Small balance patch to ONLY new bots.
3nd Month - Do nothing.
4rd Month - See if patch is needed, if so do it WITHOUT saying so to the player base.
8th Month - See if final Patch is needed, Buff or Nerf as needed.

Wait, what if people get mad? Like the last time you did a balance patch?

I will say the last balance "thing" did have one positive outcome.  It changed the meta.  Doing these small patches changes the meta.  You break builds, you make players think and get off autopilot, this is GREAT for the game.  You piss people off when you do a wide brush approach, but when its small people can react faster, as you have less information for them to absorb.

Changing the meta makes things fresh again for older players, and newer ones have no clue whats going on so this isnt for them anyway, but they see the benefit from it.

Spelling and Grammer duh.

Your main problem is that you think that robot parts are somehow linked with robot stats and attributes. But they are not, it's just 3D model. Stop thinking in that way.

Shockingly this isn't the problem.
It comes down to logical ways of thinking and game design.

When you look at Composite bots, or the original idea of making bots able to swap out parts, they were linked to each "part" as to say.

The problem in why this wasn't introduced is with the current boni, its extremely likely you would have major imbalances.  Hence, the scrapping of said idea!

The point I am attempting to make is simple.  Your boxing yourself into a corner attempting to make new content that were not quite ready for.   Making a entire new side in itself sounds great, but your adding in, and losing great potential down stream. 

Build on what you have first, in a logical systematic way.  So that future implementations of bots are easy, as you have your rule set in place.
I can go on, but this really isnt for the community at large, more so a personal referendum on the current changes, and what great impact they will have on PVP gameplay.  But, what little impact they will have on population.

No matter how much effort they will put into planning and balancing, there will always be someone who thinks it's wrong and imba. So it's better to implement something new and then (if necessary) balance it.

unless zoom manages to put the scarabs legs upside-down on some tracks

That was sooner than I expected, awesome!

Spacing this out to 11 patches would be overkill already. They are coming in packs of 2 or 3.