System Security turning hostile - bug or they just don't like me?

M00ka

M00ka
Had this happen a few times lately - I am doing a fetch mission and get interdicted by one of the 'Incoming Enemy Alerts'. Since these happen when I am returning to my home system, I know that the System Security will jump in (High Sec system) so I only have a short amount of time until one of the plodders gets in my way or something. But on the occasions I am talking about, I am happily killing the Mission Target ship, and suddenly the System Security all turn red and start firing on me. I know I haven't hit any of them - well I have received no warnings about stray shots. And I know that I am not suddenly Wanted. All I do is finish killing the Mission Target, then low wake out and continue to the station. No problems docking, not Wanted or anything, no fines, nothing. The System Security ships around the station are still green and friendly.

The way I interpret this is it must be a bug. If I did hit one of the System Security ships during the furball, then all System Security ships should be hostile against me but that is not the case.

So is this a bug?
 

B.Roberts

B.Roberts
I've seen something similar when "Known Pirate" that I took mission to kill ended up being Authority Vessel and I couldn't do anything about it. I logged out, logged back in and my pirate showed up as a normal pirate. Also, at least once, I had this situation when local authority wing jumped on me when I was dealing with another wanted mission target. I just finished that pirate off without shooting back at police (my Cutter has pretty good shields) and flew away. I docked at the local station with no issues, still allied with local government, no fines and no bounties and local police ships shown green on my radar. Collected my reward as nothing happened. These are definitely bugs.
 

gorankar

gorankar
I have seen system authority get hostile with me and each other many times, including today on both counts. Relogging fixes it as long as I or my SLF pilot do not shoot back earning me a wanted status.
 

Riverside

Riverside
I was interdicted by a clean Pirate the other day, I didn't notice, opened fire & became wanted. It was something like the 4th out of 9, I thought it was a nice twist to keep me on my toes ;)

But also the police turning red on you is back again, I take it as a sign that FDev are working on the code & occasionally triggering old bugs. Happens quite often just before a major update.
 

Faded Glory

Faded Glory
Yes, it's a bug. Been around for quite a while. Once you change the instance they (usually) behave normally.

The reason you can be sure it's not intentional is that only one, and then perhaps two of the system security start attacking you instead of the wanted NPC. But at least one (in my experience) never start to shoot at you. If you were wanted (which it's pretty obvious you're not since there's no wanted warning in the HUD) or hostile, then they'd all attack immediately. But they don't, it takes a while and then they suddenly decide they're going to shoot you instead of the wanted NPC.

And it's not friendly fire either, otherwise you'd become wanted... :)
 

wrmiller

W
I've had this happen on several occasions. I just leave and come back. But what would happen if I just get a twitch and kill 'em all? ;)
 
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