So I try to do escort missions and this kind of thing keeps happening. It's really getting quite annoying.






and a couple minutes later check out this huge line

I knew it! pup is Nightstrike!

I've had this happen in the levi sector when it was lagging, all the bots would cluster near an asteroid. Just so you know pup, this is a well documented problem that has been presented many times.

Pup != pup.

The bug is known. Momerath was inquiring about it on 100 the other day.

i was enjoying the mystery of nightstrike, alas

we all knew that anyway, because of his post in RP forums. the guild info one.

Tarenty has the right of it. Pup does not = pup. Pay attention to the details. Anyways, Devs you guys have known about this for a while so I guess its not an easy fix? Do you plan on fixing it? Or must I abandon 45% of my escort missions?

Yeah, we're quite aware of the convoy issues and have decreased the number of random convoys. We're working on other ways to fix it.
But if you wait long enough (assuming the sector doesn't lag and disappear), the bots will disappear and pretend to have docked.

Why not spawn the bots in at randomized times instead of all at once when the sector wakes up?

As it is right now, if you jump in to a sleeping sector, shortly after a whole crapload of NPCs all jump in at once and a traffic jam immediately ensues.

It's not the random convoys that are the problem. It's the escort convoys that have what seems to be an innate fetish for asteroids.

The random convoys get stuck too. I was blowing them up with conc mines just the other day for shiggles.