Is the number of times a bot shoots at a player on its own team a fixed number or percentage? Or is it a variable that changes depending on the score and distance from the bot?

Juggernaut: attack the enemy jug or help defend yours. Assault: attacking army (self explanatory) or defending army (self explanatory). There really is no choice with this mode, and based on battle wait times, it's probably the least used mode in tanki. I know from my perspective, I do not defend the base, I attack the enemy tanks waiting for a flag to appear. It's all ultimately the same. It's only semantics at this point. I remember back when they introduced the Juggernaut mode. It was every other tank in the arena against the Jug--there were no red or blue 'sides'. But every battle just degraded into a DM with only one or two tanks actually hunting the Jug (and getting one-shotted from behind for an easy kill).

I think that is the point of tanki. Do you attack or do you defend?

Essentially, Its no different than capture the flag. It's the choice of defending the flag or attacking the enemy flag. The idea-as originally presented--is similar to assault. Except the defending point isn't stationary.

Oh! So this IS a topic where complaints can be posted. Hmmm. I guess not everyone knows this. Now EVERYONE does.

Hahahahaha!!! Power creep... hahahahahaha!!!!!! Wait, wait!! Not to be outdone in it's power creep-ness... Hahahahahahahaha!!!!!

The suggestion mimics the choices already present within tanki. Attack or defend. Or both--depending on where you spawn. Seige, CTF, Assault, Rugby, and Control Points all have a stationary object to defend. The interesting part of Bump's idea is that the convoy is moving. And so the speed of your chosen tank is now a factor in play. Do you choose a Wasp that can keep up with the speed of defending your convoy? Or use Wasps speed to pursue the enemy convoy? Or do you choose a fat Titan and camp in a cozy spot and wait to attack the enemy convoy? Or give heavy support to your own convoy? And how about the convoy itself? What if--instead of just a moving vehicle--it has its own defence tanks on it? Perhaps bot-magnums as an integrated part of the convoy. Destroyable, respawnable defence bots in the convoy. Bump's idea is incredibly valid.

Would the gameplay be different and more balanced if each team had their own convoy to protect?

The ineptitude of the bots keeps increasing. It used to be that they just bumped into you. For a while now, they target you. By design.

Why can you phase through some bots but not others?

Pretty sure it's tanki.

Hahahahahahaha! Tragic.

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Hammer's needle gun. Hahahahahahahaha!!!!!!! Oh man. And the excuse used to be power creep.