Hmm...well as of 1.7.20 HS and BS are supposed to be working. I dunno about BS, but as for HS, well, there's good news and bad news.

The good news is that the bots are where they are supposed to be in the correct numbers, as opposed to not being there at all.

The bad news is that they are no longer being counted. As in when you kill a bot in the system you get the light or heavy xp, but nothing else. It doesn't even show that you killed them. I ended up with an empty sector, and the mission hadn't finished.

Somehow, I have a funny feeling that that isn't supposed to be like that. ; )

last night i tryed it out on the test server and it worked great. been lurking there alot recentley

It's up.

The missions still depend on Deliverator, which is still crashing every few days. It looks like there is at least one *other* bug that's causing them not to end (which leaves a mission available with no bots in the mission-sector), which I'm currently looking for. Anyway, thanks for the report.

just did two hive hunt missions and both of them were devoid of hive bots

Always take the last HH. It will either be OK or someone is currently doing it (unless Deliverator is down).