Hrmm. Well, the gathering sector *is* supposed to be the target sector in hivehunt and mining missions. At least for now, it is less bug-prone. On the other hand, there certainly shouldnt have been a hivehunt mission and a mining mission posted for the same sector at the same time. Did you take both in succession, or just take the mining mission and find hive and xangxi bots there when you arrived? Anyway, thanks for the report- I'm focused on killing the last bugs in the escort and pirate missions right now- hivehunt and mining are next.

If you take the escort mission in Geira Rutilus J-8, the convoy meets in I-8, which is in the middle of a star. 2 for 2 so far as the gathering sector.

John had a good laugh about this:) I actually didn't know you couldnt warp to those sectors since I mostly get places by devwarping. It's going to take a little work to make deliverator aware of these types of sectors. In the meantime, the only thing this hurts is your ability to dock with tridents when the convoy starts in such a sector.

You can get to these sectors if you /navroute manually. At least, you could in the previous client. I haven't tried it in the new client yet...

hehe @ mom

I heard they got rid of that waaaay back in October-ish @ tumble

moldy: Could you jump there, and if so, what did the background look like? ;)

No, I couldn't. But I have been inside a star before. Nothing special at all. Just another sector with the star far off in the distance.

I was expecting him to say it was too bright to see anything.

Yeah, the star sectors aren't that special. The star is just a lot closer than it would be in the other nearby sectors.

Sarahanne: I would expect it to be far far too bright to see anything, but only if someone was using shaders and the glow effects--neither of which are supported by moldyman's computer at the moment.

No i did not take them in succession, i saw it in the mission list then when i took the mine mission it was for the same sector when i got there there were NPC Xang xi and HAC's chasing the bots

After they died the next wave of hive intended for the mining mission appeared

Been doing a few hive hunt missions today, and I was wondering if the �minute start up time is really necessary? Given that a lot of the missions are 15bot ones, you spend as much time waiting for missions to start as you do actually botting...

plus, if you do go to the sector before the mission starts, I think it messes up the bot count if there is something unusual going on - once I had a queen there and after it died, the count was of ~5bots, the other time there was also a mining operation going there, again at the end of the mission the count was 2 off.