In addition to the Drone Assist problems people are reporting, it seems regular Agressive setting is also not working.
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My bug report was closed with reference to today patchnotes⌠even though it happened AFTER the patch? Wth?
Edit: apparently, it indeed says they wonât automatically agress NPCs. I assume this is meant to combat afk ratting? But CCP didnât seem to think about how it would â â â â over people that arenât afkâŚ
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Yeah CCP doing CCP things.
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jsut had npcs miners 1 hour after down time come into my low-sec ore anomaly thx ccp
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That is as intended. Theyâve set drones to NOT automatically attack NPCs that attack a player when set to aggressive. They will (should) still automatically attack an attacking player, but not NPCs.
Because your report is that drones are behaving exactly as they now expect them to do. Thatâs not a bug, thatâs a dislike.
I am sure theyâre aware of the impact it has on non-AFK players, but weighed that against the benefits it will have in removing AFK behaviour and decided that the cost is worth the reward.
right and buffing bots at the same time
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Grab another toon (or get a friend) thatâs NOT in fleet to attack one of them. Theyâll fly away and send in a response fleet that will only target the aggressor or their fleet.
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its all gone after an hour
Bots will just adjust, yes, I get it.
I didnât say I agreed with CCPâs change, just that itâs behaving as they expected it to.
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yeah i know just sayen 
if this not a bug, why do they left âassistâ button at all ? remove it for no questionsâŚ
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if the Aggressive setting no longer works why still have it in the game? other then for pvp
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Who says it isnât a bug?
There are two separate things here:
Aggression - working as intended (whether we like it or not).
Assisting (which worked fine before even with drones set to passive) - broken, bug reported.
i think they broke drone_assist_politic_allow_trigger while adding lowsec bounty multiplyer⌠all they need is to write few codesâŚ
R&D agents are broken. All of them lost the skills and showing âerror: this agent doesnât have any relevant research skillsâ.
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When inventing for a Salvage Drone II BPC, the resulting blueprint shows a mining drone icon in the Industry window.
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so to expanded on some earlier comments about assisting of drones:
any action from player that can be counted as a secondary action( guns,paints,web) , does not count when trying to trigger assisted drones to shoot npcs.
However if you try this in pvp this does infact work.
what currently doesnât look like it works as it should be is:
If you have two people person A and B
If person B has drones orbiting them on aggressive and person A comes to shoot this person inside drone control range, the drones from person B do nothing despite being on aggressive and under pvp situation.
after reading the patch notes again, given ccps history of badly worded patch notes this can be seen as intended and not a bug in my personal view, is it heavy handed approach maybe , that is not the argument here it is simply that this is intended,
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HmmmâŚ
Yes. It seems, that the update are quiteâŚcrazy.
While i DO love new idea of salvage drones and new, bigger pop-up window, the PvE with drones are barely worth the hassle now. It looks like drones even ignoring NPCs which are attacking them. Few times drones even stopped engaging not finished target to orbit my ship, not responding to my commands to engage againâŚquite the site, being 60+ kilometres away.
Plus - Mobile Tractor Unit icon is broken.
It seems, the time of auto-targeting PvE missiles are coming, huh?
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t2 salvage drone BPC have wrong logo!
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