Just thought the devs would like to know that the bots in Sedina have stopped giving combat xp.

they havent given combat XP for anything other than hive hunt missions since the new hive code was added.

Well, then why was I getting combat xp yesturday?

I've been getting Combat XP on about half my bot kills until today. Nothing today, though. And a shame, since I've gotten 100k xp+ in the last few days (heavy botting).

I botted a bit today around 4-ish... and was still getting combat XP for em.

Certain missions do silly stuff to it... but I thought that was fixed...

I got combat xp for maybe ten out of one hundred and fifty bot kills today. Maybe. And my alt needs the combat x darnit! -.-

On a related note, I attempted a Hive Hunt around 1AM EST, and did not receive credit or combat XP for killing any bots in the designated sector. I got the "This is the place, go to it" message, but no completion or status updates. Seems like the bots were disconnected from the server, so to speak. Many of them did not seem to notice that they were being shot at, none of the collectors were mining, and they didn't evacuate the sector when I killed a majority of them.

Random guess: if there's a Hive Hunt mission assigned to a certain sector, you get XP in that sector, whether you're on the mission or not. If there's no Hive Hunt mission for the sector, killing bots there won't give you XP.

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Uh, maybe I should have read all the posts before I post. Greengeek's post seems to disprove my guess.
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Every time I bot in a sector in Sedina... I get combat XP.

The only thing I noticed that changes this is if you take the Advanced Combat mission... it'll mess you up.

Hmm, this makes me wonder...

I was botting in Sedina yesterday (I-10 I think, it was the alpha cluster under the star /w bots)... just having fun, in an Advanced Combat Mission, and I took out all the overseers and maybe 1/2 of the TyCorps before I had to log...

Could it be that players not involved in a Hive Hunt destroying bots in Sector XYZ have an effect on other players who ARE in a Hive Hunt mission who are assigned Sector XYZ?

Hmm....

OK, here's what's going on:

Bots controlled by Deliverator give you combat XP. If Deliverator crashes, the bots it was controlling will hang around, but won't count for combat xp or towards accomplishing a hive hunt mission. This happened a couple days ago. The left over bots are supposed to eventually clean themselves up (warp to nowhere), but that doesn't seem to be working all the time. At any rate, we're working on it, and hopefully you won't run into this again once the current left-overs are gone.

Thanks for the clarification. We only make noise about it because Hive Hunt is lots of fun. Run little bots, run! We're coming for you!