Horizons Me killing Wanted NPCs now makes Security services attack me?

Ghostieboi

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This has happened twice to me in about a 3 day span. Now, if I had an asp, or maybe a python, I wouldn't really mind TOO much. But I have a Conda, and you all know how hefty those insurance claims are. I was just now shooting at a wanted NPC, like I had been doing for the past 45min. I had accumilated about 1mil in bounties. So, this Wanted NPC flies away just as my Kill scanner finishes scanning it. So I open fire with all the majesty of my Conda. I KEEP IT TARGETED, and NOT ONCE did I target ANYTHING else at that time. Within 5sec, I have another Hostile against me. I think "Ok, fine. I will deal with you in a moment." So, I get that Wanted NPC down to 10% hull, I look at my scanner cause I'm thinking "Wow. I'm taking a lot of sho-....WHAT THE      IS THIS?!" My entire Scanner is red with bogies. My shields go down, and I put all power into engines, to see if I can get away from the other disruptive mass of 23. The Fed. Sec. Serv. Conda. Well,     . So I'm boosting like a     , and I didn't make it. My ship exploded.

So, why in the hell did the Security Service target me and open fire, when all I Was doing was killing a wanted NPC? And I'm sorry, but I'm not gonna buy "one of the Security ships must have flown into the path of your weapons fire" because the ONLY ship in front of me was that NPC wanted ship. I make a huge conscious effort to not have any other ships in front of me, due to a past experience where this happened, and caused me to start completely over.

Ideas? Suggestions? brainstorms? Please help me, cause I'm at a loss.

P.S. Yes, I'm positive that the targeted ship was wanted.
P.P.S Yes, I'm positive that no other ships were in front of me.
 
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Mercury7

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Hmm... I've had the Feds go hostile on me before for no apparent reason, too. The only thing I could think of when it happened last time was a stray round hit them (it doesn't take anything to cause them to become hostile).

Did anything fly anywhere near your line of fire at the time? Even in the distance BEHIND the target?

Were you flying an SLF? I'm not sure, but I think once my SLF hit a friendly, causing me to become wanted. This was supposed to be fixed in the 2.2.01 patch though.
 

dangerousbeans

dangerousbeans
ah happened to me tonight, got interdicted by a NPC pirate, Elite Conda, did a warrant scan first, then after about 5-10 secs after shooting *I* went wanted, no other ships about. Conda was down to about 20% hull when 3 police ships "appeared" and just started shooting me so I finished off the pirate and did a Sir Robin.

Nothing else about to cause that, so it must be a new random bug in latest update.

I got one of those 8 minute 400 credit fines only, even after I killed the NPC.
 
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Mercury7

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dangerousbeans said:
ah happened to me tonight, got interdicted by a NPC pirate, Elite Conda, did a warrant scan first, then after about 5-10 secs after shooting *I* went wanted, no other ships about. Conda was down to about 20% hull when 3 police ships "appeared" and just started shooting me so I finished off the pirate and did a Sir Robin.

Nothing else about to cause that, so it must be a new random bug in latest update.

I got one of those 8 minute 400 credit fines only, even after I killed the NPC.
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Did you wait for him to shoot you first?

Strangely, NPCs that interdict you are often CLEAN! If you shoot them, you'll become wanted for shooting what is considered a clean ship in that system. Wait until they open fire on you.
 
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dangerousbeans

dangerousbeans
yeah when they interdict you they start shooting (all that tasty cargo!), I was tapping my foot waiting for the warrant scanner to finish before shooting the NPC. Only had this happen once tonight.
 

Boothen

Boothen
Had this myself too. Yesterday was just killing wanted ships in a Res. when all of a sudden I suddenly went wanted and got       by the local federal authority ships. The strange thing was, I wasn't even targeting or shooting at the time either, I'd just finished off a wanted FDL and was just coasting whilst letting my shields recharge before hunting down the next victim.
 

Warshrike

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I would like to know as well mate same thing happened to me yesterday. I needed to unlock "Blaster". So i went into wolf thinking i had enough bounty bonds to give him and didn't. I went to the nav beacon to farm a couple of wanted's and same thing happened to me. 9 min 200cr bounty on me. So i waited the 9 mins jumped out and in went back into the nav beacon. 1st ship i scan is wanted no-one else around so i open fire. Again next thing i notice is multi reds pounding my conda and again a wanted 200cr 9 min bounty on me. I thought it was because i am hudson and was in edmond space obviously i was wrong if it happened to you as well. I went thru this 4 times luckly i had the 50k bounty i was short so i stopped and got the conda out each time tho i had a couple small repair bills.
 

Ghostieboi

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Ben Ryder said:
Were you wanted? Maybe you had a fine or something?
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Nope. Wasn't wanted until after they started shooting me

tulextreme said:
u prob shot a cop and haven't even noticed! Like Gump said, happens!
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Nope, there was nothing in my view area, except the wanted npc. When something does fly in front of me that isn't wanted, I target something else, or nothing, to get my turrets to stop firing.

Mercury7 said:
Did anything fly anywhere near your line of fire at the time? Even in the distance BEHIND the target?

Were you flying an SLF? I'm not sure, but I think once my SLF hit a friendly, causing me to become wanted. This was supposed to be fixed in the 2.2.01 patch though.
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Not sure what an SLF is. I had no fighters quipped at that time if thats what an SLF is.



Ok, I will be submitting a but report for this, as more seem to have this problem. I will reference this thread, so please keep posting.
 
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CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI

CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI
Happened to me twice after 2.2.

The first time I tought I started to fire before the scan completed, even if I was almost sure i didn't, it was the only plausible solution.

From then on I gave uttermost care to start fire only after the scan was finished, even if I tought i was doing also before. Then I'm sure the second time I didn't do anything wrong:
1: I had no fines and neither bounties
2: I didn't friendly fire any police or unwanted ship
3: I started firing only AFTER the scan AND the KWS had finished and the target was wanted.

The second time while I was firing at the target everything was ok, upon target destruction I got a 7 days bounty of 6400cr.
Since I was aware of the issue, as soon as i saw the bounty I immidiatly high waked away and could make it without a ship rebuy screen.

Since combat is often frantic it sounded strange to me as it never happened before 2.2, but I wasn't sure it was a bug.
Now that i read this thread I see something changed.

If you submit a bug report please link so i'll come and write my experience too.

P.S.: It happened also a third time while i was interdicted: I submitted, turned around, the NPC started shooting me immediatly, I completed the scan and the NPC was obviusly wanted becouse he started firing on me. Only when I completed the scan and saw the red wanted tag on the NPC i started firing back. After less than a minute a police wing dropped, they send Comms they would have attacked both trasgressors, and i noticed I was wanted too!!!!! I'm sure i wasn't wanted before the interdiction. i had to high wake out.

Even if you can make it, being banned from a system for a week can be annoying if this happens frequently. Very fast you'll have all your usual bounty hunting systems not usuable for a week.
 
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