While working on the systems for CF2.0 i noticed that in many systems the NPC encounters do not work correctly.... or with other words... they do not work at all.
After spending more than a week on this problem I managed to trace it down to a damaged file on the CF installation.
This night I will prepare an urgent update via launcher that will fix several hundred encounter zones. With tomorrows server restart the same fix will be apllied to the server itself (which will fix this issue on the MP side). It is highly recommended that even players which only play the story campaign or openSP use the launcher to patch the game.