Today i made my usual constellation roaming to find an Hauler NPC. I find one from Ducia Foundry along with its retrievers and warp instantly to the belt. This time though they looked red to me, they all warped without me aggressing and the defense fleet arrived. i first thought my standing with D…

[image] January 2018 Release - General Feedback The Pirate FOB mining fleets will now accurately show their hostility to you, if they will attack or flee on sight. Before they used to show up as light or dark blue depending on standings even if they choose to attack you. You must have higher sta…

Yes it could be definitely be an explanation though i m not sure this was an intended mechanic

Empire and FOB mining fleets seem to operate on the same AI so it may mean they operate under the same rules when it comes to standings. Anyway not much have changed in terms of hunting them. It’s a bit trickier when you got bad sandings but same methods apply.

it changes a lot instead. before you could just attack and quickly destroy T1 Haulers (i even looted before the defense fleet arrived). Now this is no longer possible with bad standings corporation and factions so the number of available haulers is greatly reduced for FW players or players with bad …

Just killed 3 Guristas Badgers, 2 of those at the belt before fleet arrived. Time window has shrinked signifficantly so you gotta be really fast but it’s still doable.

Today i found a Guristas badger and warped to its asteroid belt. Landed at 20 km and before i approached it (with an mwd hecate in propulsion mode) the defense fleet had arrived. I aggressed and warped away before getting pointed. The Hauler went in safe and i probed it. Did the whole “get the flee…

Agression mechanics finally work as intended (at least how I think they were intended). Haven’t had a chance yet but I wan’t to check what will happen when I get red/blue fleet in one belt and I land in the middle :sunglasses: If you want to blap the hauler at the belt you need to probe it and land…

Well, to add to this, I just got engaged, scrammed and EWAR’d on the Amarr undock by a Joint Harvesting fleet I didn’t even see on the overview. I haven’t shot a rat in forever, and Joint Harvesting shows as 1.6 standings. Randomly engaged in highsec by roaming NPC fleets could be fun, but now they’…

Only idea I’ve got is that, since haulers dock/undock from stations, you were undocking at the same time a hauler showed up. It freaked out and called the fleet. It was always a good idea to get blue with locals in EvE so it’s kinda cool it got extended to HS. Considering undock lag though it kinda…

Did some brief testing yesterday. Those guys came looking for trouble. Could undock, grid would be clear, then sure enough the defenders would spawn. That can’t possibly be intended behavior. I mean, CCPlz.

Issue with mining NPC Haulers

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Iwo_Sh_ivah (Iwo Sh'ivah) January 9, 2018, 6:01pm 2

If they follow that rule here’s the answer.

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