Numerous times lately, I enter a sector and one or more of the defbots are stationary.
Normally, I attribute this to an obstacle in their flight path but there were no obstacles near them.
I tried, ONCE, to get close enough to make the bot back away from me to free it but it wouldn't budge and I accidently touched it's nose at 1m/s. It immediately came to life and blew me to smitherines!

ah-ha a cunning trap

Hahahaha, that's so awesome.

RelayeR: Are you talking about nation defence bots? I have seen them in this state before, and frequently fly over to them and "nudge" them a bit. They just
fly away. I've never been fired on. On the other hand, I've never "nudged" them
in the front. Hmmmm... I gotta try this.

Encountered a "sleeping" defbot yesterday. Just hanging there in mid-space.
Bumped it three times HARD in the nose. It eventually flew away. Didn't fire...

Did you hurt it? I bumped into a few bots too (no sleeping ones yet) and they only got mad if I damaged them.

I believe this occurs because the sector prms (the road maps, essentially) haven't been generated. At least, I hope that's why.

Do you need a verbose errors file next time, Vlad? if so, what level?