I can't even get into Rhamus N3 now. Here are some issues I noticed.

1) Eliminate or change roid occlusion for hive skirmishes. I could not target the queens or tridents while collecting drops in my atlas. I was planning to test against standard bots, but I am currently locked up. Actually, I got disconnected and the hive portion of central including the roid belt is gone.

2) I died twice collecting drops for no reason. Once "having issues" where nothing was near me and again by a helman when the nearest bot showed over 1100m away. If bots are going to have such a huge advantage, occlusion becomes foolish- however, this could have been the sector lagging.

3) I repeatedly had issues collecting items- again possibly due to the lag.

That said, I have single handedly destroyed the Serco hive without firing a single shot. Here are my reward demands.

1) 1 Levi kill and 10 cube of samo
2) 12 Queen kills 2 queen matrix, 2 queen gat and 2 hive posi
3) 20 hive fast charge, 20 n3's, 10 sunnies, and 15 guardian processor cores.
4) Public acknowledgment of my ubber badassness.

Seriously, you guys might want to take a look at occlusion impact on hive missions.

I flew up to Setana, and went to the large in G4. It started on, the only ships showing on radar were a few itani and no hive. Face to face and well away from the roids I could not target hive bots. This is upon entering the sector and the mission battle beginning with everyone running towards the roids. I'm thinking the issue isn't so much lag but something and that being occlusion possibly because there are too many active ships in the sector.

Edit:
Again in Small Skirmish at Setana K10. Unable to see hive on radar or target at all. Same situation as described above.

Ok. Add Border skirmishes to the list, though at this point I think its redundant, I haven't seen anything specific about them in bugs. Same problem.

I took Fighter Skirmish to Deneb b10. Upon entering the sector, no other ships showed on my radar nor was I able to target any. After about 10-15 seconds, one Itani ship showed on my radar. It remained the only ship viewable until it was destroyed. I died and returned. Upon my return, once again, only one Itani ship was visible. For the record, I was playing a Serco character. Not that I have any alts mind you :P

I trust these posts are useful, as I'm trying to give relevant information regarding the problem and not being my usual a-hole self.

Monday 21:10 gmt approx. Perhaps part of the same problem. I visited the central in H2 Rhamus to see how occlusion worked in a busy sector. I did not actually take the Central mission.

I noted that the initial lag was considerable, and retired to about 10 k to observe. The hive won the first round , the serco npcs vacated the sector. After a couple of minutes I suffered a timeout condition. On logging back in the levi, hive and roid ring had vanished, but had been replaced by serco npcs, which proceeded to jump out leaving an empty sector.

This led to the collapse of the Serco dynamic hive.

Sorry if folk were hoping to do some HS missions ; I had no Idea that being glared at in a particularly stern manner would have quite that effect on the Levi....

Mind you I do have a new pair of spectacles.