Hmm, this thread had many good suggestions for improving CtC. Perhaps CtC has more pressing problems now, but I'd still like to see some of these ideas noticed by the devs.

For the record, I was not aware that players who log off jettison their Xith ore automatically. That removes the need for point 3 on my CtC fix list above.

I have read this, and agree that CtC is (and has been) broken. I would like to fix it, and I would prefer to do so with the "new" framework that's currently in development. So, at present, I'm having people work on that new generic framework, rather than fixing the old CtC-specific Lua code that Waylon wrote. The new version would potentially be re-done in Lisp under deliverator and be.. well, closer to what I originally intended it to be, instead of what Waylon thought it should be (differences of opinion).

I know CtC is an important part of the game to a lot of people. I want to fix it in the short-term, and expand on it a great deal. We're "very close" to getting the new NPC framework working properly.

Waylon is dead, isn't he, inc?

Probably not yet, but EA tends to do that to their employees....