Can NPC Crew Friendly Fire get bounties?

[Bdragon4]

I've been hunting down info over a bug that I think I found, and I'm looking to see if anyone else has run across this same problem. It seems that NPC crew are able to accrue bounties for your ship if they friendly fire (which can happen a lot when the cops show up and the pilot sucks). I suspect that I've lost 2 ships to it and after doing some digging, its not an isolated incident to have friendly fire or odd bounties gained with NPC SLF's.

Examples:
https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/53wzep/heads_up_ship_launched_fighters_easy_friendly/

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/317873-Don-t-let-the-crew-fly-your-mothership

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/290157-Feedback-for-NPC-crew/page17

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/303939-Fighter-Crewman-attacks-unscanned-hostile-targets-and-results-in-bounty

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/317666-I-Am-Extremely-Angry-at-Frontier-Right-Now

Apparently this scenario has been around for a year now, but it's seems to be an uncommon occurrence. In my testing, I've eliminated the possibility that it was myself or even stray turret fire (turret fire against an untargeted ship doesn't count against you if the turret is set to "Target Only"). What's odd is I've only had this twice, but I bounty hunted with a Keelback for at least 2 months, made a killing, and only saw it happen once. So either the NPC has really good aim, or something is inconsistent. I'm going to play around with the fighters to see what it could be. Have any of you seen this?

 

[V'larr]

Giving this a bump as I would like to know the answer to this as well, and cannot find concrete info anywhere about NPC SLFs and causing fines/bounties on your head..

 

[sollisb]

I don't 'think' they can accrue bounties with friendly fire..

How-ever, and this I do know is; If you friendly fire a ship, and it goes aggro.. Your SLF with actively try to kill it, thereby gaining the murder death kill bounty.

This is very likely on the new FDev pathetic NPC flight mechanics. Even the SLFs seem to totally blind these days.

And here we are, with peeps saying that us mere Humans should be able to avoid friendly fire incidents, and the computer controlled ships can't even fly right Of course, most of those same players have never been in real combat...

 

[Imgran]

I don't think they can get bounties, but if your fighter is up and a ship turns red, they sure can make matters worse.