Um, no. Seems wholly appropriate.
I think recognising a problem is half-way to solving it - you're on the right track
In a CZ friendly fire causes everybody to shoot you
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Um, no. Seems wholly appropriate.
I think recognising a problem is half-way to solving it - you're on the right track
It happens in rez zones too where the whole instance turns against you with zero warning, fine or wanted flag and if your in the middle of the mass lock your most likely dead if its busy. Pretty sure its a bug thats been on going for awhile now, think it has to do with a ship that friendly fires you enough to cause everyone to turn against you, not 100% sure since i'm trying to as fast as i can once i notice or i'm already at the rebuy screen going how did that happen.
i have not yet had a zone turn red on me because of friendly fire
but my first CZ experience in 3.3 was high-intensity zones instantly turn red as soon as an allied capital ship jumping in... and shooting at me.
but my first CZ experience in 3.3 was high-intensity zones instantly turn red as soon as an allied capital ship jumping in... and shooting at me.
That's not what we're talking about tbh, but since you raised it, fwiw, trigger discipline is no longer that big a deal. Targeting discipline is the key. It's very difficult to turn a non targeted friendly red since one of the recent patches.
Just note as well.. there's been a bug noted in the Community Goal forums for the current CG, which I've observed as well.
Short version... occasionally one of your friendly ships will come up as a hostile, red marker on radar. All other ships will still be green allies, but this one will be red. It'll even get into fights with other ships of the same faction. If you're cycling targets and open fire though, you'll get your whole faction hostile.
e.g this post, where in the screenshot, the commander is fighting *for* Yupini Limited.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...ium-(Combat)?p=7337959&viewfull=1#post7337959
Short version... occasionally one of your friendly ships will come up as a hostile, red marker on radar. All other ships will still be green allies, but this one will be red. It'll even get into fights with other ships of the same faction. If you're cycling targets and open fire though, you'll get your whole faction hostile.
e.g this post, where in the screenshot, the commander is fighting *for* Yupini Limited.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...ium-(Combat)?p=7337959&viewfull=1#post7337959
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To be fair, I've seen friendlies shooting each other like in the old days when the robo cops would start shooting each other. When the field is sparse, I look for signs of combat. Sometimes I show up to find greens shooting greens. I've also had the whole field turn red when my fighter is out. Don't know if she hit something or not.
So there may be something odd going on.
EDIT: Interesting about the sometimes showing as red friendlies. This may be the issue I've run into.
So there may be something odd going on.
EDIT: Interesting about the sometimes showing as red friendlies. This may be the issue I've run into.
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Yeah... I thought I saw that after all the hostiles fled a resolved CZ... but hadn't heard anyone else, so, yay, not alone!
Just yesterday it happend again.
In the middle of the CZ was a single hostile that belonged to the allied faction.
I didn't shoot him because, I'm well aware of that problem by now, and I have a script to find them.
After clearing the CZ all Hostile-Hostiles jumped out and only the Allied-Hostile stayed there. And he was pretty busy shooting on a single Allied-Ally, who was returning the fire. But only he, all the other allies were ignoring the fight.
So I'm 100% positive that its a problem with the NPCs and not something that I did, cause it happend without me even touching him.
And yes, if the Allied-Hostile shoots you and you return fire then everyone turns against you.
In the middle of the CZ was a single hostile that belonged to the allied faction.
I didn't shoot him because, I'm well aware of that problem by now, and I have a script to find them.
After clearing the CZ all Hostile-Hostiles jumped out and only the Allied-Hostile stayed there. And he was pretty busy shooting on a single Allied-Ally, who was returning the fire. But only he, all the other allies were ignoring the fight.
So I'm 100% positive that its a problem with the NPCs and not something that I did, cause it happend without me even touching him.
And yes, if the Allied-Hostile shoots you and you return fire then everyone turns against you.
Hehe, if you're red you're dead. My philosophy too, until notoriety came along and spoiled all the fun.
You just need to learn to run...
This looks like a plausible explanation for something I've observed multiple times bounty hunting in High res sites. I always thought it was related to the infighting between system authority ships but it could just as well be caused by my getting hit by a green that is then marked hostile by my targeting system which in turn leads to me attacking the red dot not realizing I'm fighting sys auth until it's too late.
Unbinding Target Next/Previous Hostile would also help a lot.