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Thwarptide

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Thwarptide
This has happened once before and now I'm curious to know why it happened again.
Situation: hi-rez, making NPC pew pew along with the green sec guys. I'm out front, bad guy finally goes "kaaaaboom"! Next thing I know I'm being shot at by 3 of the 4 fed security guys and they're very put off about something! 😡
While I waited to see how well the newly G5 hull tank held up, I checked to see if I suddenly became wanted. Nope. I'm very careful to not shoot when they cross my path, but I also have turret cannons on top. Maybe I nicked somebody? Doubled checked the fines and bounties tab. Nothing.
So the smart thing would be to get out and end it. Boy were they mad. Boosted 23 km away from em to let sheilds catch up, let the green guys cool down and I'll get back to kersplat'n the npcs . Hull only went to 94% after all that pummeling from em. They were so mad they caught up to me and went at it again.

I can't figure it out. I didn't target one after or during or the kill.
I'm 90% certain none of em crossed my line of fire . 10% possibility one of em got nicked, but I've nicked em before and nothing happened.

Your thoughts?
 
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Chris Simon

Chris Simon
If you are not wanted, then it has nothing to do with potential friendly fire or killing an innocent.

Out of curiosity, what's your standing with the ruling faction (the faction cops belong to)? Isn't it by any chance Hostile?
Because that would be my first guess.
You did bounty hunting in some adjacent system where this faction isn't a ruling one and the pirate ships you've killed there were theirs so you slowly dropped your reputation with said faction to Hostile.
 

Thwarptide

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Thwarptide
Chris Simon said:
If you are not wanted, then it has nothing to do with potential friendly fire or killing an innocent.

Out of curiosity, what's your standing with the ruling faction (the faction cops belong to)? Isn't it by any chance Hostile?
Because that would be my first guess.
You did bounty hunting in some adjacent system where this faction isn't a ruling one and the pirate ships you've killed there were theirs so you slowly dropped your reputation with said faction to Hostile.
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Well Cmdr Simon, I godda be honest with you, I'm always a good boy in my host/home system.
I'm allied with the controlling faction (they own the only BIG stn.) while I'm neutral with the other 6 micro factions. Right now there's a Civil War and I ain't sticking my nose in a 7 way battle of wits.
This is the only system I've been hunting in for months, ranking up. Adjacent systems are all anarchy, uninhibited.

The only time (4 weeks ago) I was wanted, was for targeting and shooting the wrong fed ship. It happens during the chaos of big fights with many bad guy ships in a wing and lots of security ships. "Oospie, my bad" don't cut it with em. I paid the bounty.
 
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Chris Simon

Chris Simon
In that case (unless somebody else comes up with an idea), I think it was some minor glitch in the security mainframe. :)
If it happens again (or if they keep attacking you despite you being allied and clean), it would be good if you'd report it, I guess.
 

Thwarptide

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Thwarptide
Chris Simon said:
In that case (unless somebody else comes up with an idea), I think it was some minor glitch in the security mainframe. :)
If it happens again (or if they keep attacking you despite you being allied and clean), it would be good if you'd report it, I guess.
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I do believe you are correct. After the game update today, it would make sense. I'll stay on top of it.

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Faded Glory

Faded Glory
Hasn't happened to me in ages, but it's probably a bug where system authority suddenly turn hostile to you even though you're not wanted.

Usually only two of the three authority ships go hostile to you, so it's clearly nothing to do with your status, and usually, if / when it happens there's a wanted NPC that they should be shooting at.

Here's an old bug report, if it's the same thing...

 

Thwarptide

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Thwarptide
Faded Glory said:
Hasn't happened to me in ages, but it's probably a bug where system authority suddenly turn hostile to you even though you're not wanted.

Usually only two of the three authority ships go hostile to you, so it's clearly nothing to do with your status, and usually, if / when it happens there's a wanted NPC that they should be shooting at.

Here's an old bug report, if it's the same thing...

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Ohhhh, now it's making sense!
I'm not sure how fdevs servers and computers work, but since it happened twice now in a 4 week period, it could be a bug in this system only. Not certain I wanna risk get'n gang-banged by the green guys anymore for now.
Maybe I should find another similar system at least 20+lys away and see how it goes.
Thanks for posting the information.
I don't care what the other Cmdrs say about you in the forums, yer alright. 👍
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aRJay

aRJay
I have seen the Feds start shooting each other from time to time.

There is also the issue where if you are in a wing and one of your wing mates hits an innocent target when the Feds attack him they will appear red on your scanner though you won’t be wanted at that time.
 

Thwarptide

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Thwarptide
aRJay said:
I have seen the Feds start shooting each other from time to time.
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Ya know, I thought it was just me seeing things. I've observed the feds doing this exact thing a few times.
Especially a couple minutes (no more) after fighting a few waves of private wings.
Feds must have a berserk mode. I've been involved with some dern weird fights when there's been several wings of npc pirates in the spot at the same time and suddenly all he'll breaks loose, then there's around 10 feds.... Shooting going on in every direction. You just can't make heads or tails out of the carnage.
 

Chris Simon

Chris Simon
Kort said:
If I've heard this once I've heard it a thousand times, "I'm innocent officer". Bwahahaha
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I've heard this from an actual police officer - when you do it long enough the "Innocent until proven guilty" mentality can easily shift to "Oh well, if we screw up, we can always apologize later".
Scary thought..
 
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