okay, the group missions appear to be bugged out.
This is a snip from my errors.log

**Mission Computer 17* toshiro killed a Defender bot. Your group needs to destroy 2 Sentry bots, 5 Assault I bots, 3 Infiltrator bots, a Defender bot, and 3 Assault III bots.

**Mission Computer 8* You killed a bot that wasn't on the list. Your group needs to destroy 3 Guardian bots and 3 Assault II bots.

*Infiltrator CMC-0764-96


No, its not coherent at all.

Yes, this does not make any sense at all...

1) all YOUR messages should come from the mission computer in YOUR sector (I first wondered how you got from 17 to 8 so fast).
2) the other bots left after tosh killed his defender are not on the list with the additions from your kill.

Are these 'snips' in order or is there something edited out of them?

they are in order, mere seconds after eachother.

it makes sense. everytime someone in your group kills a bot it tells you how many of what kind you have left to kill. so toshiro is in 17 killing bots and when he kills one, the group is informed no mather what sector group members are. You dont get penalized by killing a non mission bot, its just telling you thats the wrong bot for the mission heres the bots you need to kill still. And when a member of your group dies, then you get the message so and so died x amount more bots are added to the group mission.

look again, there was no death, the bot -kinds- differ wildly.

spider this would make a lot more sense if you had just copied and pasted the entire section of relevant your log that way we could see things like time stamps and intervening steps.

[Sun May 16 17:01:29 2004] ^?40ff40**Mission Computer 17* Igor killed an Assault I bot. Your group needs to destroy 3 Guardian bots and 3 Assault II bots.
[Sun May 16 17:01:33 2004] ^?40ffff(team) [6] <Mephisto> any idea how i could increase the chance to get scrap metal missions?
[Sun May 16 17:01:36 2004] ^?ffffff<group>[11]*Igor* omw 8
[Sun May 16 17:01:44 2004] ^?ffffff<group>[11]*Igor* er 5
[Sun May 16 17:01:47 2004] ^?00ffffPress the Activate key to dock.
[Sun May 16 17:01:53 2004] ^?40ffff(team) [12] <Arolte> nope. dock and undock until you get it
[Sun May 16 17:01:58 2004] ^?ffffff<group>[17]*Anansi* I can't find any asII, gonna msg them
[Sun May 16 17:01:58 2004] ^?ffffff<group>[11]*Igor* fore the guardians
[Sun May 16 17:02:09 2004] ^?80ff80->*Assault II CD-3361c: get over here
[Sun May 16 17:02:09 2004] ^?40ff40**Assault II CD-3361c* 00111000010010101100001110000100
[Sun May 16 17:02:12 2004] ^?80ff80->*Assault II CT-1153b: move!
[Sun May 16 17:02:13 2004] ^?40ff40**Assault II CT-1153b* 01011011000000001001100000010111
[Sun May 16 17:02:18 2004] ^?80ff80->*Assault II DR-8847n: Die!
[Sun May 16 17:02:18 2004] ^?40ff40**Assault II DR-8847n* 10100011101110111000001001000010
[Sun May 16 17:02:22 2004] ^?80ff80->*Assault II DT-4350v: badong!
[Sun May 16 17:02:22 2004] ^?40ff40**Assault II DT-4350v* 11000110100001101111001111000011
[Sun May 16 17:02:22 2004] ^?ffffff<group>[9]*Igor* its working - i got confused between total and left msges
[Sun May 16 17:02:23 2004] ^?40ff40**Mission Computer 17* toshiro killed a Defender bot. Your group needs to destroy 2 Sentry bots, 3 Assault I bots, 3 Infiltrator bots, 2 Defender bots, and 2 Assault III bots.

As for the devs, they got the whole log posted to them in the other bugreport.