I am a bit curious why there has not been any recent storm activity.

Without storms Travel in VO is a bit boring and there are no Storm Hive skirmishes either.

Were they removed or disabled to make way for new fogged sectors?

Well honestly I don't miss them.

It kinda sucks how the raptor is even more useless, but meh it sucked anyways.

I'm fairly certain their disappearance is just a bug for now.

I liked the storms. They made the Escort missions interesting.

We're going to fix storms. We've been heinously busy trying to wrap up a few projects with specific external deadlines, so we can get back to game development.

As bugs go, I don't mind if you wait a while on this one. Storms don't add any fun to the game for me at all.

I really miss the ion storms - sure they were inconvenient, but they were not only surprising and broke up the monotony but also gave mad combat and weapon xp for hive skirmish.

I like the ion storms, they are trippy. Glad they are getting some love.

I miss a lot the Ion Storms... they are a welcome change to a somewhat "flat" universe. They give a reason for escorting in the absence of pirates!

And after implemented the exit point bug, fix, we and the NPCs leave in same spot, they are fair.

Despite I still think they should be moved to another, special sector, like "inside subspace".... I hate that we cannot see an ion storm from a neighbouring sector... and creating another 'SubSpace Sector" for each system would fix that!