Couldn't help but get a chuckle.
You went in to a battlefield (with cargo and uncollected claims) and expect to come out fine.
Next your going to tell us it was a d-rated trade python and expected to do just fine.
Not to mentioned you picked a side before actually knowing the actual number of (potential) friendlies and hostiles.
The only pity I got for you is the fact the zone wasn't populated from the time you jumped in (I've gone to high-intensity CZs dozens of times and they are always already populated) but regardless you picked a side to fight on without knowing how many ships were going to be on what sides.
edit: ninja'ed about 30 mins ago. Should of read the rest of the posts lol
First i expect the game to work as intended, and not works as we hope it will, and if not then who cares you should not had been there then, so no other to blame then your self.
Yeah the sec that you kill one with wanted status, you get for xxx system also, if you scan them, and if you kill freaking lots of them, you get to freaking lots of small systems you need to go to, i dont want to fly to 35+ systems to collect the bounty, i go to them if they are getting high yeah sure, and i always collect them in the systems i normaly do missions in, cause thats where the main bounty is located, but if you as me have killed a lot over some days, you will get small bounty 100-200k all over the place, and some i had in federal space, alliance space... those were the high ones, wich i would go collect later today/morrow, cause they were getting high, but i do not want to fly 300 ly to collect 100k, would do that when they getting higher.
Cargo yeah i had that, i get 25 each 30 mins atm, so for not wasting time on just flying back and forth and cant do other things then that, i pick up new ones evert 30 mins, and between that i do missions, and til now at no risk at all, and would had been no risk still if it was not for a game hickup.
Well i know the number 1 on my side, there was no other ships and beside that i had an mission. But what you say is dont pick a side til you have counted ALL ships, well let me see 1 + oh wait thats it 1.
Yeah well as said there was 1 ship there, and as you self said its ALWAYS populated and have always been for me also, so where should i know from it would be a glitch? I just thought well they are spawning a few now and then then, and not thinking ok lets wait cause im 100% sure they all spawn at once.