This is the first mission using a new deliverator-side system that I expect still has some bugs. The areas I most expect you to find them in are with multiple people taking the same mission (which isn't supposed to happen, but could) and with the Hive upgrading its presence in a sector you're supposed to be clearing.

Anyway, here's a thread for reporting them, so they're all in one place for me:)

I'm sure a lot of you ran into bugs where you took a mission and got no further messages, or went to the assigned sector, killed some bots and then the mission wouldn't end. I'm pretty sure I know what causes all of this, and unfortunately there's not a really simple fix. For now I'm going to add something to inform you of the various circumstances causing it when it happens and let you out of the mission gracefully. Hopefully I'll be able to do that tommorow. I'll try to explain the issues more clearly then, and hopefully the community can come up with some innovative solutions.

I was just sent to an empty sector (K-8). There needs to be a way to tell the mission compter "the sector is clear", at which point the mission ends without penalty. This is needed even if the mission works perfectly, since other players could clear the sector for fun. (Also, acording to the dev-wiki, killing the queen should force the other bots to flee, which could be a sucessful way to complete the mission. -- Last time I checked, this behavior isn't in the AI, but when it does, the mission should gracefully handle it.)

Sectors with a queen are called Bastions, and they do clear when the queen is killed. However, the Hive Hunt missions don't currently (or aren't supposed to) include Bastion sectors, as I am going to make that a group mission. I did put a check in for the sector being cleared or upgraded before you get a chance to complete the mission, and it is supposed to allow you to abort without penalty. Not sure why it's broken. I'm working on it now.

Just curious if I actually managed to get semi-correct behavior out of this mission last night.

Got the missions at L-2, went to K-8 to kill bots. For the first 5 or 6 kills, I was getting Combat XP in addition to the usual Weapons xp for killing the bots. Then the new XP gains stopped, and I received no further messages upon clearing the sector of bots.

I assume I was just lucky and managed to start the mission while Deliverator was still running in some fashion, then it crashed while I was busy popping the bots.

Thanks for all the hard work, momerath. The missions look to be a lot of fun.

My experience in B-12 mirrors greengeek's just prior to this post. Mine would skip combat rewards and then get them again... Below is errors.log with dialog removed. (At 17 bots [told to clear 18] I returned to station to repair and mission was inactive).

[Sat Sep 17 20:34:14 2005] You are entering Sedina B-12
[Sat Sep 17 20:34:47 2005] 00ff00Heavy Weapons +5
[Sat Sep 17 20:34:47 2005] RelayeR destroyed *Orun Collector XJ-7555s
[Sat Sep 17 20:34:47 2005] 00ff00Combat +5
[Sat Sep 17 20:36:00 2005] 00ff00Heavy Weapons +5
[Sat Sep 17 20:36:00 2005] RelayeR destroyed *Orun Collector CD-1329l
[Sat Sep 17 20:36:17 2005] 00ff00Heavy Weapons +5
[Sat Sep 17 20:36:18 2005] RelayeR destroyed *Orun Collector KX-0810l
[Sat Sep 17 20:36:50 2005] 00ff00Heavy Weapons +300
[Sat Sep 17 20:36:50 2005] RelayeR destroyed *Valent A-47 Assault CWZ-6333-31
[Sat Sep 17 20:36:52 2005] 00ff00Combat +300
[Sat Sep 17 20:38:02 2005] 00ff00Light Weapons +300
[Sat Sep 17 20:38:02 2005] RelayeR destroyed *Valent A-47 Assault PFR-1175-20
[Sat Sep 17 20:38:03 2005] 00ff00Combat +300
[Sat Sep 17 20:38:29 2005] 00ff00Heavy Weapons +300
[Sat Sep 17 20:38:29 2005] RelayeR destroyed *Valent A-47 Assault XMR-8470-91
[Sat Sep 17 20:39:26 2005] 00ff00Heavy Weapons +300
[Sat Sep 17 20:39:26 2005] RelayeR destroyed *Valent A-47 Assault DHD-5189-51
[Sat Sep 17 20:41:35 2005] 00ff00Heavy Weapons +5
[Sat Sep 17 20:41:35 2005] RelayeR destroyed *Orun Collector PD-1890n
[Sat Sep 17 20:41:35 2005] 00ff00Combat +5
[Sat Sep 17 20:42:08 2005] 00ff00Heavy Weapons +300
[Sat Sep 17 20:42:08 2005] RelayeR destroyed *Valent A-47 Assault RMJ-3887-76
[Sat Sep 17 20:42:08 2005] 00ff00Combat +300
Sat Sep 17 20:42:49 2005] 00ff00Heavy Weapons +5
[Sat Sep 17 20:42:49 2005] RelayeR destroyed *Orun Collector XX-3292f
[Sat Sep 17 20:43:58 2005] 00ff00Heavy Weapons +5
[Sat Sep 17 20:43:58 2005] 00ff00Combat +5
[Sat Sep 17 20:43:58 2005] RelayeR destroyed *Orun Collector XD-6341w
[Sat Sep 17 20:44:11 2005] 00ff00Heavy Weapons +5
[Sat Sep 17 20:44:11 2005] RelayeR destroyed *Orun Collector KR-0630w
[Sat Sep 17 20:44:47 2005] 00ff00Heavy Weapons +5
[Sat Sep 17 20:44:47 2005] 00ff00Combat +5
[Sat Sep 17 20:44:47 2005] RelayeR destroyed *Orun Collector JX-1432n
[Sat Sep 17 20:44:52 2005] 00ff00Heavy Weapons +5
[Sat Sep 17 20:44:52 2005] RelayeR destroyed *Orun Collector JZ-6016n
[Sat Sep 17 20:44:57 2005] 00ff00Heavy Weapons +5
[Sat Sep 17 20:44:57 2005] RelayeR destroyed *Orun Collector RJ-5143c
[Sat Sep 17 20:45:51 2005] 00ff00Heavy Weapons +5
[Sat Sep 17 20:45:51 2005] RelayeR destroyed *Orun Collector JC-4557b
[Sat Sep 17 20:45:58 2005] 00ff00Heavy Weapons +5
[Sat Sep 17 20:45:58 2005] RelayeR destroyed *Orun Collector CR-2460l
[Sat Sep 17 20:50:31 2005] You are entering Sedina K-13
[Sat Sep 17 20:51:19 2005] ffffffPeople in the room: RelayeR
[Sat Sep 17 20:51:19 2005] You are now in Sedina II Orbital (Xang Xi Research).
[Sat Sep 17 20:53:29 2005] You are entering Sedina B-12
[Sat Sep 17 20:54:29 2005] 00ff00Heavy Weapons +5
[Sat Sep 17 20:54:29 2005] RelayeR destroyed *Orun Collector JR-1308w
[Sat Sep 17 20:54:29 2005] 00ff00Combat +5
[Sat Sep 17 20:55:09 2005] 00ff00Heavy Weapons +300
[Sat Sep 17 20:55:09 2005] RelayeR destroyed *Valent A-47 Assault KBC-0940-89
[Sat Sep 17 20:55:10 2005] 00ff00Combat +300
[Sat Sep 17 20:55:13 2005] Automatic Nearest Enemy Targetting Engaged.
[Sat Sep 17 20:55:23 2005] 00ff00Light Weapons +300
[Sat Sep 17 20:55:23 2005] RelayeR destroyed *Valent A-47 Assault RFR-9566-54
[Sat Sep 17 20:55:23 2005] 00ff00Combat +300
[Sat Sep 17 20:55:36 2005] Automatic Nearest Enemy Targetting Disengaged.
[Sat Sep 17 20:56:10 2005] <CLICK!> Out of missiles!
[Sat Sep 17 20:56:19 2005] 00ff00Heavy Weapons +300
[Sat Sep 17 20:56:19 2005] RelayeR destroyed *Valent A-47 Assault RWZ-7119-52
[Sat Sep 17 20:56:19 2005] 00ff00Combat +300
[Sat Sep 17 20:56:45 2005] 00ff00Heavy Weapons +5
[Sat Sep 17 20:56:45 2005] RelayeR destroyed *Orun Collector CX-8799c
[Sat Sep 17 20:56:46 2005] 00ff00Combat +5
[Sat Sep 17 21:00:12 2005] 00ff00Heavy Weapons +125
[Sat Sep 17 21:00:12 2005] RelayeR destroyed *Fennus R-18 Guardian TJ-5336h
[Sat Sep 17 21:00:12 2005] 00ff00Combat +125

I've fixed a few bugs with the Hive Hunt missions that are now on the production server. I just found one more that was really dumb:( It prevents anyone with a multiword character name from taking the mission. It's fixed in CVS and hopefully we will get the production server using it soon. Apologies to all the players with multi-word names- I'm not discriminating against you! really! :)

Well, seems to make sense for why I had issues with it the other night. Every single Hive Hunt I tried aborted instantly, even when there was a nice fresh Settlement to go wreck. Not to be totally discouraged, I wiped out the Settlement anyway ;)

--Nerde Verde