Crew attacks any target when switching.

EDanaII · Apr 15, 2018

Has this bug been reported? Just curious, I did a search but couldn't find it.

Three times now, I've had a crewman attack whatever target I was focused on when I switched over to the fighter. And, when I say target, I mean a non-wanted one. Had to run away to save my bacon and pay off the bounty several times now.

I doubt I'm the only one experiencing this, but, like I said, haven't seen it listed. So... anyone know if this has been reported?

Just curious...

Krieger · Apr 15, 2018

SLF going rogue is a known (but rare) bug. There should be a thread about it somewhere in the bug reports forum. But in your case you switch to the fighter and then the crew goes rogue in your main ship? Sounds very similar to a rogue SLF but it could be a new bug.

--edit:
Found it. It's in the archived bug reports forum: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/396355-Fighter-Bay-NPC-Pilot-Causing-Bounties

NascentChemist · Apr 16, 2018

Do you have turrets? They will attack your target one time when you switch to the fighter.

I think that the crew is programmed to click the "primary fire" button 1 time to deploy hardpoints when you switch. If your hardpoints are already deployed, they fire on your target.

rekurzion · Apr 16, 2018

NascentChemist said:
Do you have turrets? They will attack your target one time when you switch to the fighter.

I think that the crew is programmed to click the "primary fire" button 1 time to deploy hardpoints when you switch. If your hardpoints are already deployed, they fire on your target.

interesting. i've seen this behavior outside of crew play. if my turrets are deployed and they are firing on a target then i stow them, switch targets or reset my current target and deploy them again they will fire once. this is with turrets set to target only.

this is unwanted behavior.

PanTast · Apr 16, 2018

I never had this. But I never fly the fighter and I barely use turrets. If I want to fly a fighter, I ask someone to invite me to crew. I consider it to be careless to let the crew fly the mothership, but thats maybe just me ...

o7

Quantis Trap · Apr 16, 2018

NascentChemist said:
Do you have turrets? They will attack your target one time when you switch to the fighter.

I think that the crew is programmed to click the "primary fire" button 1 time to deploy hardpoints when you switch. If your hardpoints are already deployed, they fire on your target.

And this is one of the reasons I NEVER put my turrets, if I have any, on the primary trigger even if I have nothing else!

I'm thinking this may preventable by setting the firing deploys hard points option to off. I could be wrong on that though. If not, it's definitely a bug.

PS: Man I wish we had a third and maybe fourth trigger! Yes, I know it's already a request and has been forever.

EDanaII · Apr 17, 2018

NascentChemist said:
Do you have turrets? They will attack your target one time when you switch to the fighter.

I think that the crew is programmed to click the "primary fire" button 1 time to deploy hardpoints when you switch. If your hardpoints are already deployed, they fire on your target.

Yea, I'm thinking this may be the actual problem. Not sure yet, but had a different incident today that suggests it. Too tired at the moment to be certain, but... maybe.

Synesis · Apr 17, 2018

It sounds like the behaviour I've reported in 2.2. (https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/321887-Targeted-ship-hostile-after-switching-to-SLF)
It was not a matter of the crew deploying hardpoints by 'pressing' the primary trigger back then, as my crewmember kept the status after switching.
However, I have not checked for it since 3.0. So now it might work like NascentChemist described it.

space voyager · Apr 17, 2018

This SLF bug bit me once only. I had the attack my target enabled and when I targeted a police ship the crewman started shooting. Yesterday that did not happen, I had to manually run the order again for the SLF to attack.