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Most effective use of poison?

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Ammeh:
When you produce a poison, what's the best memory location to target?

I've been thinking about this, and the fact that you can only nullify one memory location... I'm just not coming up with any brilliant ideas that would turn an attacker into a piece of cake for you to nom

Numsgil:
Probably .shoot.  If it's poison, it's triggering because of -1 shots (and something else, I forget what, though).  You can also target .up.  Most bots aren't smart enough to detect that and use .dn instead.  Won't help to kill them but you can run away effectively.

Venom has far more uses.  You can do fun things like force them to store nrg to body.

Ta-183:
Another idea is to use an entire set of target locations, rather than focusing on a single one.

For example;
Your bot is hit. This triggers the poison shot.
The target of the poison is the first element of the list, which, for our purposes, makes the guy stop shooting.
Next cycle, it iterates the target sequence and now targets .up, next cycle, .dn. This makes it impossible (or just very difficult) for most bots to escape.
Next, target eyes, common conspec locations, ect.
All the while, your bot is gearing up to either fight or run.

But I agree, venom has many more uses.

Houshalter:
I think you want to make him stop shooting last or the other targets will be useless.

Ta-183:
True. That definitely sounds like a priority error I would make.

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