I have to mention this again.
Cause it has happened on my second and new server again.
Sometimes the scientists on the oil rigs won't move, sometimes the cargo ship won't and stays at the end of the map til
it's time is up and despawns.
So, I have to ask. Can plugins that are no longer on a server influence the server like forever?
I have the assumption that installing the Event Randomizer plugin did this to my servers.
But after it is installed the issues stay.
Is this possible? Or does it have to be a plugin that's still on the server?
Does anybody experience similar issues?

Plugins can affect entities, but normally if they’re removed and the server is restarted it would restore/recreate these entities without any attatched components a plugin might’ve added.

So, if I get these same issues on 2 servers (one of them is new) it has to be either Rust itself or a plugin that's actually installed, right?

Did you install oxide and plugins on the new server, and was AI working as normal before installing anything? Plugins can’t affect servers whole, even after wiped atleast not any public plugins. If plugins are removed and server restarted, any effecting plugin shouldn’t effect AI’s.

I used Oxide and plugins from the beginning.
I still have some on my server.
I guess I will never find out why these issues are there and why they happen only sometimes.
Makes me go crazy. :D

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Cargo Heli does get stuck too btw. Just saying! :D

Is this still an issue for you? I'm having this issue as well and can't figure it out.

No. I'm not having the issue anymore.
But I created a new server with different plugins a while ago.
So I can't really say what the reason was.
Sometimes it still happens that cargo ship or chinook get stuck.
But I consider this as a problem of Rust itself.