Drones - Attacking neutral NPC's

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Hello capsuleers,

doing my rounds in Pochven, I had some strange issue after killing a ship. My drones headed for neutral NPC (which fought other neutral NPC’s) and shot one of them without me ever giving any order. I called the drones back, left the area and was greeted with a “Combat - Ship Kill” message with my standing to EDENCOM decreased.

  • My overview is only set to show player ships.
  • I target the player ship, let my drones attack the target.
  • Target got destroyed.
  • Drones suddenly went towards fighting NPC’s and shot an EDENCOM ship.

This has happened quite a few times. I have hundreds of kills with the Astero and still don’t have a clue, what’s causing this.

Support helped me reimburse my standing; I reported it as well and always created a support ticket in the hope that they check it.

Right now, support left me alone with this without any explaination (& reimbursement); meaning I need to grind for standing and will need to so again.

What’s causing this drone behavior? It’s similar to your guns suddenly shooting a neutral NPC without you giving an order.

Greetings,
Cabal

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Drones in Pochven do silly things, I’m not 100% sure why as I’m not as Pochven expert in any way but drones there have a habit of switching targets on their own. Every time I went there for the (then) needed standing, and while using a drone destroyer, I’ve seen them stop attacking a Rogue Drone that isn’t dead yet to go for another nearby Rogue Drone and they do that ever so often, like every 30-60 seconds or so.

WHAT it is I don’t fully understand, but it’s not you and you’re not going insane :slight_smile:

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