Engineers "I'll be watching you..."

GunnyHighway

GunnyHighway
I was returning from an exploration/meta-alloy expedition in Maia and I was in the middle of my route, hadn't seen any settlements or other ships in several jumps. I got too close to the sun I was scooping and got knocked out of SC.

As I waiting for my FSD to cool down, a CM3 jumped into my wake. I thought it was another blood-thirsty NPC and readied myself for combat, but worried about the extreme heat. but he just sat there and... scanned me!? Seemed like he was looking for bounties (which I had 4k in a system 200ly away), but he finished his scan and said "I'll be watching you...". Then he left me alone and I low waked out.

I hadn't seen this NPC behavior in what feels like years, have tweaks been made to the behavior of NPCs to make them more realistic? Or did I just run into a remnant of code long past?
 

MadDogMurdock

MadDogMurdock
Their behaviour has been tweaked although I'm not quite sure what criteria they use.

I was getting wings of 5 pop into a mission-related USS - they would scan me and then respond with stuff like "Whoa there big boy... just passing through."
I'd understand it if I had a high combat rank or a combat optimized ship but this was from a Deadly FDL with 4 smaller buddies.

I was really expecting the "Bring gold next time chump." message instead.
 

OriginalBadBoy

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GunnyHighway said:
I was returning from an exploration/meta-alloy expedition in Maia and I was in the middle of my route, hadn't seen any settlements or other ships in several jumps. I got too close to the sun I was scooping and got knocked out of SC.

As I waiting for my FSD to cool down, a CM3 jumped into my wake. I thought it was another blood-thirsty NPC and readied myself for combat, but worried about the extreme heat. but he just sat there and... scanned me!? Seemed like he was looking for bounties (which I had 4k in a system 200ly away), but he finished his scan and said "I'll be watching you...". Then he left me alone and I low waked out.

I hadn't seen this NPC behavior in what feels like years, have tweaks been made to the behavior of NPCs to make them more realistic? Or did I just run into a remnant of code long past?
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One day we will get an animated video clip of the NPC doing this ....

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akaliel

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Yeah noticed they have more variety in their interaction now. However I still get the odd elite FDL that interdicted me for no reason. I'm not wanted, i'm not in PP, I have no cargo and he just lights me up. They really need to fix that.
 
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