Now, using bots as one way transporters can work, but its not perfect.  Even with landingcraft in BF42, bots will sometimes just sit in the pilot position without launching from the ship.  But it only works oneway.

The time to take control of a strategic area would allow the bots to pause before going on, but if bot takes over the flag after it leaves, it probably will come back.

Plus, the bot transporter will be attacked by any enemy bot that comes in range.

A circular path would be extremely hard to make perfect, so there could be 4 trains all going their each way to form a square.  I have something to add very interesting, but I think it may break the NDA. I'll ask a dev if I can share it with you.

Just code it so flys in a circuit, but stops at certain points for a certain amount of time. That should be do able right? Kinda like coding AI path-finding right?

For a place like Mos Eisley or Mos Espa, you probably wouldn't have air traffic like a locale such as Coruscant or Cloud City, instead most of the traffic would probably be spacecraft leaving from the spaceport docking bays, or land based traffic so straight paths would either look silly (star wars spacecraft don't take off straight up) or just plain wouldn't work (Mos Eisley and Mos Espa don't have many straight streets so traffic would run into buildings eventually).  However, you could probably make and effective spacecraft takeoff using a rotational bundle with a very very large radius and clever placement in a docking bay that is inaccessable to infantry.

Just some ideas on implentation, I'd love to see this feature make it into some of our final maps, but only on an appropriate level, using this to excess would probably make the atmosphere worse rather than better.  As some people have noted, during large scale conflicts, most civilians evacuate the war zone so I dunno how much civilian traffic we would actually see during a conflict in the star wars universe.

Of course several different vehicles set on rotational bundles moving slowly around the sky could be used to simulate traffic.   The sharks swimming around in circles in BF42 pirates are fins set on rotational bundles.   IN DC for BF42 there is map that has large aircraft on rotational bundles with mobile spawn points where you can man the weapons or parachute out of.

A buddy of mine managed to code some bombers in a personal BFVietnam mod to fly on autopilot.   He attached an invisible rocket to the planes to keep them moving at a constant speed and fixed the controlls so it would fly straight.   He set up the vehicle AI so the bots would just stay along for the ride, and use the MGs or drob bombs on targets.   So the plane would start at one end of the map, fly to a targate drop bombs and then keep on flying until it ran off the active combat area and was destroyed.

But the same idea might work to have vehicles moving from one end of the map to the other, just as vehicle traffic.  You don't need any bots at all for that.   

So, there are some possibilites, we just have to see what we can do with BF2142 down the road.

Here is a map that such a system with air buses might be good for: A close quarters infantry battle set high in the upper floors of several towers on coruscant. Each tower could have a few flags, maybe one or two floors accessable, and a shuttle station with an automated airbus that would transport players between the towers (obviously there is no ground in reach). A team with contol of the shuttle station and the flags in one tower would control that tower easily. If the enemy got past the shuttle station and into the tower then there would be a battle between the flags inside for control of that building. This would allow the battle to rage across several buildings in coruscant while maintaining good scenery, because if players flew themselves, then they could go wherever they wanted, and to render enough buildings to make the city look realistic from any perspective would take too many system resources. but if the transports fly along set route there could be many buildings without rendered backs, in 2d, or set to a smaller scale to look far away and all still look realistic.

Look at the most recent major wars. Were the civs in Saigon evacuated? How about in Baghdad? Or Paris during WW2. How about the Battle of Britain? Or Berlin? Or, as an even better example, the V2 attacks on Britain. Or right here in the United States. After the 9/11 attacks, did we evacuate NYC that same day? No we didn't, life continued as normal later that day. The same thing applys to all the citys above. Citys in the middle of war often are not evacuated because they can't evacuate because of enemy troops, or they are considered safe from the effects of war. Look at Coruscant in the Episode 3 novel. The whole time the space battle was going on above them, people were doing what they always do every single day, as if there was nothing special about that day. They paid little to no attention to the battle, even as thousands of lives were being lost. Did they attempt to evacuate  the city when wreckage started falling or when the occasional turbolaser bolt would come down? No they didn't. Just because its and emergency or theres war does not mean you evacuate. Look at Cloud City during The Empire Strikes Back. Even though there was Imperial fleet above them and a small battle going on in the streets, did they evacuate? No, air traffic continued as normal. The same thing could happen to to any city. They either do not evacuate, can not evacuate, or simply are invaded to fast.

With all due respect, I don't like the idea. In emergencies and war, civilians are evacuated.