Where have the Trading Guild ships gone ? Bug?

[RandomEvent]

Running v0.19361 multiserver through a hosting company theSmelter

Since this update, I no longer see the Trading Guild ships roaming around.
They used to add life to the server, appearing, wandering the universe, doing whatever they do.
Now they only appear if you attack one of their shops.
Is it just me?

This game needs extra life such as AI ships.

Would also like to see more AI factions EACH with their own BluePrints.
It would add life to an otherwise dead game.
I do not want to see the same ships spawnable between the AI factions.

Federation using Borg ships, I do not think so.
Same with Star Wars themed servers (you do know Star Wars is almost here????)

 

[aceface]

AI as of the last 5-10 major updates got completely rekt

 

[Comr4de]

Plus you gotta realize that that system was implemented before this huge AI revamp. It used to be that going out to 50 50 50 was considered "the edge" of habitable space. With players in much closer proximity, AI sim fleets would pop up more often. Now that you have players spread out over literally hundreds of star systems they're much less common.

 

[aceface]

since when was there an ai revamp? lol

 

[StormWing0]

noticed that the trading guild no longer restocks their stations but does so for shops. It's like the command wants to work but doesn't spawn anything even though it goes through. Same thing with player shops as well.

In any event AI spawns in general are a bit off lately so maybe the commands are firing but something cuts off the spawning of the ships?

 

[Megacrafter127]

Same thing with player shops as well.

Which was an exploit which was fixed.