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So I'm going to lay out a major problem that is happening around the warzone in FW. I know others have had similiar problems trying to catch ratters in combat sites, but please refrain from posting about it here as these two ideas are not the same.

As it stands, one of the ways to acqure LP in FW is to run Lvl 4 missions thoughout lowsc. For those of you who don't know, these missions spawn a beacon in space for everyone to see and anyone to warp to. An element of risk that justifies the rewards earned, but since the NPC AI mechanics were changed that element of risk has become a joke.

In FW, you're on a choosen side of the war fighting for your faction. In plexes, the faction rats on your side will help defend you (if we'll call that) and will not shoot you. Working as intened

Fast forward to mission sites. When you go into an enemy's mission site (meaning you're going into a room full of your own faction rats), they immediately begin to shoot you. Working as intended.....I think not.

What good does it do to provide mission runners a full room of rat aggro to protect them from WT's and neutrals? That is risk free LP making, a noton that I thought CCP was trying to curve. Something has to be fixed here and fixed quickly. Call me crazy, but I don't think your own faction rats should switch to you in mission sites,regardless of the new AI mechanics A safegurad needs to be set in place so that faction rats from your own FW faction do not shoot you in plexes and in missions.

You'e missing the point in your trolling. This isn't everyday combat sites where I want a tasty km. I signed up for FW where I can freely shoot my WT's and I fight to defend my faction.

By fighting for my faction, that implies I support them and they support me in teturn. It's a benefit to being in FW. It makes no sense for them shoot me. I hve signed up to help them and receive help.

OP is referring to FW missions, so -1. Besides, this is very bad behavior from FW rats in general (think of it like being AWOXed, and you'll get what I mean).

So your theory is that CCP gave all FW mission rats ship-scanners so that they attack PvP fitted ships exclusively?

Reason why it must be ship scanner: The second you enter grid you are locked and fired upon by the entire room .. no module activation, no movement, nothing .. greatest AWOX mechanic in Eve history.

Question I need answered, since CCP has yet to fix what must be a massive bug, is whether people exploiting it will be punished or if they get the blind eye is customary for GM handling of FW petitions. What is to stop me (apart from my unwillingness to use alts) me from taking a mission and tanking the entire room with a "hostile" alt as NPC literally stop aggressing the mission runner when a 'friendly' enters.

Thankfully it is of only minor import today as mission LP cannot hope to compete with regular FW plex farming LP, but still annoying that such an obvious bug/oversight has survived this long or even made it out of testing.

yeah noticed it also.

in past, rats would not engage you at all if you had good standing with them, this created the "standing tanking" problem where missioners could run the mission without being shot at. It seems CCP solved that by making the faction NPCs friendly fire but.. well the priorities are a bit wrong ;)

Oddly enough, this does seem like legit oversight by CCP. If a Gallente FW player warps into a Caldari plexer's site and opens fire on said plexer, why would the Fed. Navy open fire on one of it's capsuleer bros? No, "OMFG HE TURNED ON AN OFFENSIVE ECM MODULE SHOOT HIM DISREGARD THAT FRIENDLY FOF" doesn't defeat common sense.

For a generic, run-forward-shoot-bad-person FPS designed for grade schoolers: yes, your silly run-forward mechanics are very important.

For a Role-playing Game, which inherently means its dependent on lore...get out.