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Drones not agressable?

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Syrias Bizniz
some random local shitlords
#1 - 2013-07-18 16:02:03 UTC
Hey there,


Just had a nice little brawl with a tristan. Well, not really a brawl, and not really nice, because i was staying away from the tristan in my slicer and decided to pick off his drones. I killed a firetail just short before, so ancillary rep still reloading when he lands, but np, i got range. He launches his drones, i lock them up, i want to activate my guns and... nothing happens. Security set to yellow, but whatever, he's a WT, so that can't be the reason. I tried switching ammo, maybe one of my multifreq crystals died with the last volley onto the firetail? Still nothing, can't activate my goddamn guns on that drone. After some panicking etc i decide to try another drone. And boosh, it's down in 2 volleys. I start eating myself through his dronebay, but there's still this little fcker drone not willing to get shot at. My cap slowly dries out, i can barely run a repcycle, i can barely fire my guns, and so i die to an invulnerable drone (and 2 of his dronebuddies i couldn't take anymore) and am really pissed and have no ******* clue what was the issue.



Any expierience / ideas of you what could have been it?

Additional info: The one drone was showing with a neutral tag, not with wt tag like all the others.


Sincerly,

Syrias Bizniz
Whitehound
#2 - 2013-07-18 16:17:34 UTC
Maybe it was not his drone after all?

Loss is meaningful. Therefore is the loss of meaning likewise meaningful. It is the source of all trolling.

Syrias Bizniz
some random local shitlords
#3 - 2013-07-18 16:18:58 UTC
I thought i'll just assume that it was his drone since it got launched by him and he was the only guy on grid (except for that (droneless) firetail later again), and whil therefor assume it's been something with HIS drone rather than some out-of-control roguedrone.
Medude
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#4 - 2013-07-18 16:23:37 UTC
Could he has abandoned it?
Syrias Bizniz
some random local shitlords
#5 - 2013-07-18 16:47:15 UTC  |  Edited by: Syrias Bizniz
Unlikely, it kept orbiting and shooting me.

Not sure on this: I might have managed to get my NOS on it, but not sure if it really was that drone.
Huttan Funaila
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#6 - 2013-07-18 19:27:17 UTC
I've encountered a bug with drones. Basically, 1 of the drones shows up grey on my overview (instead of green). That's the neutral tag you were mentioning. That drone won't attack on command, but if some thing aggresses me, the drone attacks. I can clear it by retrieving the drone and relaunching it. I suspect you encountered this bug.

You can't report bugs at this time.
http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/an-update-on-bug-reporting/
Syrias Bizniz
some random local shitlords
#7 - 2013-07-18 20:06:34 UTC
Huttan Funaila wrote:
I've encountered a bug with drones. Basically, 1 of the drones shows up grey on my overview (instead of green). That's the neutral tag you were mentioning. That drone won't attack on command, but if some thing aggresses me, the drone attacks. I can clear it by retrieving the drone and relaunching it. I suspect you encountered this bug.

You can't report bugs at this time.
http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/an-update-on-bug-reporting/



This sounds like the point of view of the tristan i was fighting. Pretty interesting though that this drone was not aggressable for me.
seth Hendar
I love you miners
#8 - 2013-07-19 08:41:43 UTC
the whole tag / overview is pretty buggy since odyssey, not long ago, it happened that even ppl where not showing with the correct standings in overview, we instapoped a few corpmate when they undocked (NBSI).

they used to appear neut while undocking for everyone on grid (while they were in corp / alliance / fleet).

once they docked back and undocked again, issue was fixed

we found a way to identify them from real neut, when undocking, instead of their name, their shiptype was displayed.


this happen less, but still occurs sometimes.

it also happens that ppl doesn't appear in local, yesterday night, i saw a neut magnate dock, while no neut was in local (and he was not), of 7 ppl, 3 others reported he was NOT in local, the others claimed he was.....

eve is so broken ATM...Sad