Pilot Archive

Usually, when my guildmates and I go out into Kessel to shoot Tier 5 Rebel fighters, we see the Rebel Corvette at least twice (sometimes right on top of us as we exit hyperspace into the system). There are a few static waypoints that I have in my datapad for reliable spawn points where I've also seen it show up when I've gone out with others to help them get their Ace status, and usually just in the course of being out in the system, I run across the Star Ravager at least once.

Tonight, I did not see ONE Corvette. Not the Imperial Corvette, not the Rebel Corvette. We had each possible spawn and despawn point camped and we had people flying back and forth between them every so often to be sure we didn't miss it... nothing. We were there for almost three hours straight, so by the math we should have run across at least one of them in that time, if not two.

The really strange thing was that at one of the points- the one where you jump into Kessel and it's occasionally right on top of you- there was a strange spawn of Rebel ships on a spaced out timer. Usually two or three fighters, and always two (or one time, three) Rebel Gunboats *right* on top of each other. I have a screenshot of one set where the two Gunboats look like they're on a tight follow of one another, and are basically spinning in circles in space around each other for no particular reason.

Is it possible these were the escorts for a Rebel Corvette that failed to spawn... which is why they're freaking out once they enter the system, and following each other in circles? Has anyone else actually seen either Corvette out in Kessel today? Because I'm just wondering how totally unlucky we'd have to be to get out there and wait three hours in all the usual locations, and scour the rest in the meantime, and not see either of them... but to see this kind of weird behavior out of some of the other spawns in the meantime.

Edited to include that we're on Radiant server, because that might be nice to know.

Message Edited by Sahiko on 02-09-2005 10:51 PM

Well, the weird thing about the spawn was that it was two gunboats right on top of each other, and when destroyed two more would respawn... and target each other, and circle each other. Kind of like when you're in space and you set to /follow your friend without realizing they're set to /follow you, so you fly in circles until you realize it and one of you breaks off, only the AI did it to itself instead of setting off on the pre-designated patrol paths they usually follow. When I killed one the other started in on the patrol path though. It was bizarre.

Now I hear that someone's spotted them, so maybe we just hadn't cleaned up the last of the fleet that had been part of the previous Vette's trip through or something. Next time we'll try that first.

I was sitting in Kessel on Starsider for about 4 hours waiting for it to spawn and no dice. Sat out there from 9pm to 1am. Super pissed.