Agent mission woes

We are experiencing some difficulties with agent missions at the moment, as many of you will have noticed. Many kill missions are not currently working, since the NPC entities are not showing up to be killed, which is rather unsporting of them.

Secondly, agents are giving out missions which require contraband items to be ferried between locations. As the Empires are now actively hunting and punishing contraband smugglers, those found carrying such items can expect harsh repercussions. This seems to be of little concern to the agents, perhaps understandably, since they neither own the ships being blown up nor do they answer the petitions from the enraged pilots.

In light of this, we urge players to refrain from taking agent missions until we have implemented a fix for these issues.