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Drones Ignoring Hostiles

Author
Ding Bang Oww
Perkone
Caldari State
#1 - 2014-03-06 20:27:07 UTC
I've been mining with a barge for a few days now and one of the things I've noticed is that when you go to a belt and rats attack you; once you deploy your drones they will simply ignore the hostiles that are already attacking you. In order for them to agro on the rats they have to be deployed before the rats begin attacking you, which is often not possible. The solution is to target the rats individually and set your drones on them; but in a mining barge this is tedious and takes away from your ability to harvest multiple asteroids.

Easy solution is to add a line of code so that drones set on aggressive check every x seconds to see if you are being attacked; and if so retaliate.

I can get screenshots of the issue if you would like to help better understand the issue. It's not a huge problem but it's something that has come up and can be a pain.
PopplerRo
#2 - 2014-03-29 08:01:17 UTC  |  Edited by: PopplerRo
When drones are on aggressive they will only attack targets after the target aggresses you or you aggress something, if you launch drones after being aggressed the drones need to be manually set to attack then they will resort back to attacking everything.
This has been the way in game for many years.