Horizons fighter launch from hostile ships

I'm curios about a situation I am running into on a fairly frequent basis. When in battle with a "wanted" adversary, said adversary will launch a fighter... If I hit or kill the fighter coming from the ship I am engaged with I become wanted. I don't really follow the logic of this in that it seems that the launched fighter should be fair game. (It is coming directly from a hostile ship and will be shooting at me in short order) Is this an intentional game mechanic or something that has slipped through the cracks? Or have I missed something obvious? (always a possibility)
 
I'm curios about a situation I am running into on a fairly frequent basis. When in battle with a "wanted" adversary, said adversary will launch a fighter... If I hit or kill the fighter coming from the ship I am engaged with I become wanted. I don't really follow the logic of this in that it seems that the launched fighter should be fair game. (It is coming directly from a hostile ship and will be shooting at me in short order) Is this an intentional game mechanic or something that has slipped through the cracks? Or have I missed something obvious? (always a possibility)

Probably not intentional, but I think it is wise to wait until it actually hits first before blowing the little out of the water.
 
Probably not intentional, but I think it is wise to wait until it actually hits first before blowing the little out of the water.

Yeah, unfortunately you have to let it fire first. This is quite annoying as it comes out unwanted even from a wanted ship that's actively firing on you.
 
There is at the moment still an unintended behavior that Frontier promised to fix as soon as possible.
The fighter needs actual himself a basic scan to confirm that he is wanted. Otherwise you get a bounty for murder, which doesn't make sense itself because of telepresence and no murder has happened.
 
I made a bug report about this today as well, suggesting that fighters should inherit wanted status from the mothership. Just like when my fighterpilots gets wanted while in the mothership I also get wanted.. well, sort of just like that. :)
 
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