They have started targeting them first off as well, at least in the ones I have had after the patch. They used to go for the closest object. I may be wrong.
I was aksing because it be cool if ED could actually add a new Search and rescu profession to the game
get missions like : rescue XX pods from Thargoids and not just get the PODS before they scoop them but maybe we could chase them down as well?! police chase style! lol
i heard they added such profession but im yet to find anything related to it.