Insta locking Federation navy fleets of death

[Zhalyd_Lyehin]

Question about new (?) npc type

Lost a ship last night in Mesybier (0.5 system) to a blob of faction police (??) (Federation Navy) on entering the system. The Gallente hate me, after many years of simple hisec missioning. Up to now I’ve always been able to dodge them during transits. However… the faction police showed on dscan as diamond npcs now (never noticed that before ?!) I got targeted, webbed AND scrammed as soon as I dropped gate cloak by initiating a fleet warp the “time to warp” value for my ship was 5 seconds Is …

I bet it’s #CCPQualityCoding striking again and they just “forgot” to turn off the smuggler event NPC.