Pilot Archive
Thread: Kessel AI
. Yeh, Kessel isn't that dense really. Not sure why but /shrug. Quirky I suppose.
Now it's awful. One ship used to be ignored to find another mecha-Godzilla-sized spawn. Now one ship is worth zeroing in on in the NEW Kessel.
shh. thats SOE balancing for you. 
i have noticed tho, that during peak hours, on lowca, kessel does seem to spawn a bit more than usual. especially around 30 mins before the corvettes spawn
Hmmmm...makes me want to quantify
must...quantify...speculation....
In the early days, and even up until the CU, there was always something unpredictable about Kessel. Often it would be like it is now--pretty empty, pretty sparse, etc. However, a few people have theorized that the Freedom Station in Deep Space acts like a "switch" to trigger Kessel over into an overload form.
People who have been in Kessel during overload know what it's like--massive numbers of both types of NPC spawns, multiple corvettes for both sides (I've seen six corvettes in Kessel at the same time), and Tier 5 Black Sun fighters in place of those pirate X-wings and Kimogilas that spawn.
That theory about the Rebel station being the "switch" is supported by the fact that no one has seen an overload since the CU, which bugged Freedom Station so it can't be destroyed. It's still all theory, though--it could very well be something else that we're missing, or maybe the devs disabled overloading Kessel for server-side reasons. We don't know, but *something* has definitely changed, because we no longer see it.