Issue:3430 Bot sectors timout 2016-01-18 12:58:02

One of the fun activities of VO is hunting Hive Queens.

We monitor a bot sector like Dau F5, and after 8.5 min, the bots leave and go to the queen... we follow to get her location.

With the fast sector restart, F5 resets if you leave and go change ships, then return.

Please make any active sector with bots have the old 5 min timeout instead of the new shorter one.

So stop leaving the sector..

I do kinda like VO to at least lean toward reality. If I witness a bunch of bots warping into a sector, then there should be some reasonable time that if I return to that place, the bots are still there... instead of seeing them return just because I went back there.

So, we are not going to change the sector timeouts.

But, I think this might be mitigated by changing the older capitol-system Hive Queen mechanic to use Kourier instead of the older mission-botflock stuff. That would allow greater persistency, but would take a bit of time to implement.

To be clear, though, how much persistence are you asking for here? Is the problem whether the Queen is there or not, or whether the Queen still has the amount of damage you applied? Or what?

I think the complaint here is that if you leave the collector sector the bots don't carry on mining while you're gone?