So I take an escort mission, only get one ship, it goes boom its empty. So then I try to recreate it to see if it happens again...it does. So someone else takes it, same thing, one ship, empty on boomage....just a single heavy moth, no escort or anything and they are empty.

The company doesn't trust pirates I guess

Maybe the ships are getting smarter...
Maybe they know...

It's a TRAP!

Leber, you're too drunk, the correct spelling is "tarp". =D

IT'S A TARP!!!

Did you fill out the "Use of multiple excitation points request" form?

Yep , I confirm mystics' observations . Most escorts generate a voy of 1 ship , no cargo , low or minimum payment ....

not only that , my escorts have been going a different direction and warping out . I usually follow the white dots and they may sometimes go towards the right target area , but most times they dont .
Worse in storms , I usually stay close and all the ships go the opposite direction from the storm exit point they jump and I dont , leaving me sometimes having to backtrack to my green + point in the radar with a 12000m exit point .

Been doing this all afternoon and evening .

Four days later and this is till broken...now even worse you get no ships with an escort!

We started looking at this immediately after the thread was started, but not sure what's causing it yet, and people have been busy with other work. We'll track it down.

I'm still not sure what caused the original dropping problem, but at whatever point the ships stopped spawning for the mission, it was because deliverator died and took out a piece of the kourier infrastructure with it. I'm sorry I didn't notice sooner, and that I didn't respond right away. Please let me know if you run into the Escort mission problems mentioned in this thread again.

The good news is that I've been working on a pretty neat Border Skirmish replacement; once it's ready, we can turn off deliverator for good.

Hey Mom and Inc the test servers been loaded with bots in station sectors again. It's preventing log on if you're in a station

I'm fairly certain I found the cause of the escort problems and the fix is in production. If anyone runs into the problem again, *please* let me know!

Also the test server is back to normal (a 30G kourier.log ran it out of disk space), and the new BS alpha is on there. Please try it out and let me know if you run into any bugs. There are a few extra things to finish for the mission, but it should be completely playable now and the only bug I know about is some bots sticking around past the end of the mission.