Make the hive bots that spotted ye in a ion storm or fogged sector chase ye during 2 or 3 jumps.

Having bots chase you across jumps in general would be a big change, and interesting.

They already jump across systems and even through wormholes. I saw a bunch of Siepos Collectors (Red hive!) flying through Latos a couple days ago.

+1 cool idea :)

Aye - the hive should remember players that bother it and actively try to kill them sending increasingly harder sorties until they lose track of the player or kill them - they should also adjust thier hostility based on the last 30 minutes of activity ie each sector could have a defcon level of sorts to determine thier minimum level of hostility.

Before making bots capable of leaving their sectors to chase some poor shlub, I'd like to see bots capable of calling for help within their sector and able to choose a new target if a larger threat presents itself. Not to mention other problems currently plaguing the bot system. Calling for help and target switching would especially make queen and leviathan encounters more interesting.