Last night I was one a Pirate Mission kill and dropped into the Nav Beacon (always find a few wanted pirates at these). No problem, quickly got 4 of the required 6, and even noticed a few were rated Deadly and above (thank you Sarah!). Then a vulture arrived, quick scan, rated Deadly, not part of a wing, wanted and identified as a Mission Target. Did a full KWS on him and went in for the attack. No problem, it was Vulture versus Vulture. Then a NPC Diamondback Scout dropped it and immediately started to attack me. At this stage I was still busy with the Pirate Vulture and hadn't even done a scan of the DBS. Finally destroyed the Vulture so swung around to scan/target/destroy this pesky Diamondback that had been draining my shields.
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Whoa I say, just before opening fire. Although his icon was flashing red on the radar, on the scan he came up clean. Okay, performed a KWS on him, nope still clean and no bounty recorded. But he was definitely hitting my shields and draining them. I didn't want to fire on him and incur yet another bounty in this system, I had just that day cleared the last one (so yes I was clean myself).
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I ended up SC'ing out of the instance, waiting a minute or so for my shields to fully recharge then went back in. The DBS was thankfully gone and within a minute I had the final Pirate exploding in front of me (a low ranked Cobra but it was the 6th kill I needed).
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What has confused me is how come the DBS stayed clean, even though he was actively shooting at me and draining my shields????
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Whoa I say, just before opening fire. Although his icon was flashing red on the radar, on the scan he came up clean. Okay, performed a KWS on him, nope still clean and no bounty recorded. But he was definitely hitting my shields and draining them. I didn't want to fire on him and incur yet another bounty in this system, I had just that day cleared the last one (so yes I was clean myself).
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I ended up SC'ing out of the instance, waiting a minute or so for my shields to fully recharge then went back in. The DBS was thankfully gone and within a minute I had the final Pirate exploding in front of me (a low ranked Cobra but it was the 6th kill I needed).
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What has confused me is how come the DBS stayed clean, even though he was actively shooting at me and draining my shields????
