There’s an issue where the sever lag causes limpets to collect something, fly back to your ship, and then just hang there outside your cargo scoop. After a bit of time they’ll finally collect the item, but that amount of time varies with how laggy the server is being.
That’s not the issue. The Powerplay assignments I had this week were to go to a specific rival faction system and salvage cargo, and another to an undermining system to pick up escape pods / black boxes.
In both cases, when dropping out at a Power Wreckage site, there may be one or more NPCs already present, or ones will drop in shortly after you arrive. These NPCs will always be Clean. They’ll always scan you, and will always attack you, but they never lose their Clean status. So if you fight back, you get a bounty for assaulting them. If you destroy them, you get a bounty for murder.
So you have to try to drop in, scoop up what you can, and make a run for it. But if your limpets are lagging out, that doesn’t work and the whole process becomes an incredibly frustrating waste of time.
