Angus514

No necessarily, given the amount of islands on the map it would be very easy to have enemy ships spawn behind them, realistically there areas to place more spawns than can be covered by the few ships in the mission Literally anywhere but right next to a player, the more ridiculous thing about that encounter was that I was trailing the stern of the convoy by at least 15km when the cruisers spawned next to me, you could have drawn a 15km radius around the convoy and picked literally any other spot along that line, but instead it opted for right on top of a player.

There are too many glitches with this one particular mission to ignore The most apparent is the frequent inability of the AI convoy to stay together - so many times Raptor will speed away from the other ships, leaving essentially 2 groups to defend and the carrier now outside of the repair circle. Or even on occasion AI ships have managed to crash into islands and get stuck. Another is the spawning of enemy AI, I'm all for the unpredictability of them spawning in different places each time, but not right next to a player ffs! Yesterday I'd gone solo to the south to take out the enemy carrier and it's escorts - then when heading off to catch back up with the rest of the team, I had 4 enemy cruisers spawn into almost on top of me ... needless to say I didn't last long AI need to either spawn off the map or at least outside of players view range. With these sorts of glitches being a far too common occurrence the mission is often impossible to complete, made more frustrating because you can't just give it another go in the same ship straight away again without spending.

The solution I would think for the spawns (unless they already do it) would be to have spawns all around the map and it chooses spawns that are away from players current positions - perhaps not all spawns are outside the map but I think its ridiculous that they have ships literally spawning within 2km of your position