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Anyone been seeing wacky odd NPC rat behaviour since patch?
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Nariya Kentaya
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#1 - 2013-11-29 02:07:25 UTC
so, was mining, and a Blood Ferrier warped in with 2 Blood Collectors, thought nothing of it, drones will kill it.

collectors die, but oddly, the ferrier is flying IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION, not even targeting me. every 50km it called in 2 more collectors, and when it hit 150km away from it, it warped 250km to be 100km on the OTHER side of me, and proceeded to repeat the process for about 2 hours before leaving the belt.

like... what the hell just happened? i just had a belt rat refuse to engage me.
Jim Era
#2 - 2013-11-29 02:17:58 UTC
Had that happen a few times...it just flies around at far distances.
He was a scout

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Sobaan Tali
Caldari Quick Reaction Force
#3 - 2013-11-29 02:27:27 UTC
Intentional, I believe...that's an unarmed rat type.

Bingo...
According to http://games.chruker.dk/eve_online/npc_ships.php , the Ferrier is a hauler rat.

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Steve Spooner
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#4 - 2013-11-29 03:12:11 UTC
Since drone nerf those NPC's are the only feasible way to mine with guns and/or missiles.
Ila Dace
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2013-11-29 03:25:08 UTC
The pirates are harvesting for a secret project. They're up to something.

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Garandras
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2013-11-29 03:33:44 UTC
I think its more a case.. they need the ore to repalce ships these bloody carebears keep killing on them
I Love Boobies
All Hail Boobies
#7 - 2013-11-29 04:56:52 UTC
The rat got into some fermented cheese and was a bit tipsy.
Nariya Kentaya
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#8 - 2013-11-29 05:24:22 UTC
Sobaan Tali wrote:
Intentional, I believe...that's an unarmed rat type.

Bingo...
According to http://games.chruker.dk/eve_online/npc_ships.php , the Ferrier is a hauler rat.

ah, wow, been a LONG ass time since i saw a hauler rat before this, and those ones were sansha, so they had a different name.

well, thanks for clearin that up.
Santa Spirit
Christmas Spirit and Goodwill Toward Man
#9 - 2013-11-29 06:23:42 UTC
there are also harvester rats that do this too...

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Jove Death
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2013-11-29 08:30:25 UTC
he came to the belt to have a private dump and you wouldnt leave the poor bugger alone

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Lors Dornick
Kallisti Industries
#11 - 2013-11-29 08:47:26 UTC
Nariya Kentaya wrote:
so, was mining, and a Blood Ferrier warped in with 2 Blood Collectors, thought nothing of it, drones will kill it.

collectors die, but oddly, the ferrier is flying IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION, not even targeting me. every 50km it called in 2 more collectors, and when it hit 150km away from it, it warped 250km to be 100km on the OTHER side of me, and proceeded to repeat the process for about 2 hours before leaving the belt.

like... what the hell just happened? i just had a belt rat refuse to engage me.

Ever pondered to use a shower or deodorant?
I mean there has to be a reason for even belt rats to avoid you ;)

But as stated, hauler rats will never engage and they will try to head off grid.

Then there's the common odd thing that rats will randomly warp off to another belt, and sometimes that 'other' belt happens to be the current one (but only if they are so far out that they can, ie only hauler rats).

Not to mention the odd rats that warps top 100+ off some random station ...

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Sigg Zalman
Incognito Mode
Brotherhood of Spacers
#12 - 2013-11-29 09:02:01 UTC
Caught one of them with an Inty, engaged and he warped 250km off, caught him again and he left the system! Reappeared 2 mins later 250km away, caught and killed him this time and reaped the rewards of 50,000 tritinium, all 247,000isk of it.... which didn't fit into my Inty's hold lol, not that I wanted it anyway.
Mhax Arthie
Doomheim
#13 - 2013-11-29 09:15:18 UTC
Somehow I managed to drag out one of these harvesters from the belt ...once. Happened during a skirmish fight when I warped into a random belt than to a POS. Was a surprise to the see the harverster poping into the POS shield then slowly flying away.
Tul Breetai
Impromptu Asset Requisition
#14 - 2013-11-29 10:42:33 UTC
Nariya Kentaya wrote:
so, was mining, and a Blood Ferrier warped in with 2 Blood Collectors, thought nothing of it, drones will kill it.

collectors die, but oddly, the ferrier is flying IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION, not even targeting me. every 50km it called in 2 more collectors, and when it hit 150km away from it, it warped 250km to be 100km on the OTHER side of me, and proceeded to repeat the process for about 2 hours before leaving the belt.

like... what the hell just happened? i just had a belt rat refuse to engage me.

He heard procurors are always bait.

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Anke Eyrou
Hades Sisters
#15 - 2013-11-29 11:05:15 UTC
Noticed similar thing was mining in a retreive when 2 rats warped in. I locked targets set the drones on to them, destroyed 1 and the other one went off to attack another miner.

I expect to get this post deleted or locked. So much for freedom of expression.

Aralyn Cormallen
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#16 - 2013-11-29 11:29:25 UTC
I once had to chase a high-speed faction spawn rat across some 5-600km before I could bring the bastard down. The joys of NPC code, you sometimes get some crazy effects.
ElQuirko
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#17 - 2013-11-29 12:32:33 UTC
You just got mugged off by an NPC rat. Let that sink in.

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Jamagh
Grand Violations
#18 - 2013-11-29 15:03:46 UTC
Once had a rat warp in, then it moved away from me. When I gave up mining for the night, the stupid thing was over 3k away... and still going. Did not get any other rats the whole time. Now in null sec on my main, I get rats like every 5 minutes.....

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Nariya Kentaya
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#19 - 2013-11-30 05:09:09 UTC
Aralyn Cormallen wrote:
I once had to chase a high-speed faction spawn rat across some 5-600km before I could bring the bastard down. The joys of NPC code, you sometimes get some crazy effects.

hehe, yeah i remember once, i was living in lowsec for a short while before moving to wormholes.

me and a friend found a sansha faction-spawn in a belt.

we got just within weapons range of the bugger before it warped off, friend was pissed and i was like "dude lets go after it".

perma-running MWD, we chased that bugger with it popping on and off grid at 300 something kilometers over about 45 minutes. eventually we were like in the middle of empty space, and we started seeing 2 and 3 appearing at once that had come from other belts, some faction, some not.

we never did catch that NPC, but we did prove that there are valuable rats out in the deepest darkest parts of empty space warping around, and thats cool at least.