I was having issues with the position packet stuff. I believe all hyperspace mods who were around at the time recall what it did to the zone. The bots would lock up periodicly, depending on how many outgoing packets they would send. About every 6-10 hours, the hub bot itself would up and die. We worked around this by keeping 2 backups of each bot, for a total of 7 bots online at once. When one would die, you just kill it, bring in the next one, and go back to waiting for it to die (about every 10 mins at peak times). Note that the hub bot itself would die. This means that nothing we were doing in the spawn bots was causing the issues that we were having. The core itself was faulty. Yes, in all likelyhood, we turned on a buggy feature (spec hopping for position packets, to be precise), but the core itself had the bug. We lived with this for 4 months. Then I got tired of bugging the totally useless TWCore bot team about it, and moved to ASSS. Now, don't misunderstand me, ASSS is even more buggy than TWCore, but at least progress can be made. I've found Grelminar quite helpful in debugging Hyperspace issues. We, for one brief moment, had a quite reliable system going on under ASSS. Conclusion: If you want stability, stick with Merv. If you want untracable bugs that will never be fixed in the next release (because there will be no next release) and MySQL integration, go with TWCore. If you want to go insane tracking down numerous quite fixable bugs in a friendly dev envorment, go with ASSS.