Psycho Stations on a rampage...

Murphy's Ghost · Jan 5, 2015

So I was making Solo mode trading runs a few nights ago between Tau Ceti (Ortiz Moreno City) and somewhere else, and on my return trip, noticed the station lighting up an NPC. Good fun to watch, all those streams of kinetic rounds, so pretty. Pop goes the weasel, etc.

I got permission and docked and began the trade-menu-shuffle... and as I sat on the pad, started hearing muted "booming". This continued for some time, so finally after finishing business, I took a look around the station interior - and it was chock full of newly destroyed hulls and parts.

As I sat there on the pad watching, the station proceeded to pick off each NPC coming in for docking, filling the interior with shreds of ships. It was quite eerie... good old Ortiz must have killed about 10 ships while I watched. I checked the news feeds and it didn't seem like this was a civil war or factional dispute, but I could have missed something...

I did indeed take off and hastily exit, just to see what would happen - and nothing happened to me, I was not targeted. Whew!

Anyone see this before, in stations not undergoing a civil war or whatever? I know during Beta there were some notoriously "touchy" stations, but this one hadn't been psycho for me before, or since...

fw190a8 · Jan 5, 2015

I always wondered what had become of HAL 9000 after they pieced him back together.

Seonid · Jan 5, 2015

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, isn't that sweet, Dahan Gateway is all grown up.

Murphy's Ghost · Jan 5, 2015

Boston Station seems to kill a lot of NPC's too - It doesn't help that it's all lit up in red and so already looks eeeevil!

JonnyC0mbat · Jan 5, 2015

Winter does bring out the drunk drivers. Maybe they're clamping down in that system.

CMDR Carbo · Jan 5, 2015

As I wrote in another thread, there is sth really buggy with NPC and station AIs.

Legendre Ring in Breksta is a pretty bad one, killed about 8 of 10 approaching NPCs last time I was docked there.
It's not the securtiy ships outside that attack, they let the NPCs pass. But as soon as they are through the letterbox, the station backside starts to blow them up.

One NPC wrote to comm something like "Aaaaargh, why is this happening again!" which was quite funny.

CatHellsky · Jan 5, 2015

Maybe the NPCs are neglecting to request docking permission?

Murphy's Ghost · Jan 5, 2015

aguettinger said:
One NPC wrote to comm something like "Aaaaargh, why is this happening again!" which was quite funny.

Yeah, usually the Comms chatter is pointless, but this made me laugh when I saw it too.

schuesseled · Jan 5, 2015

I'd love to go through a letterbox and see hell reincarnate.

Murphy's Ghost · Jan 6, 2015

It was like a cinder snowstorm, there was so much black junk bouncing around in that can. I should have taken a picture to share, will if it happens again.

ollobrains · Jan 6, 2015

need more youtube vids