I decided to go off for a bit of Void-Opaling, to a nice quiet spot I know some distance out from the bubble. Now, I know that for some bizarre reason very likely to do with game code not checking to see where you are, it is a guaranteed event that a couple of pirates show up and check you out when you drop into the rings. So no problem, I turned up with nothing but limpets in the hold anyway, and they bug^H^H^H went away.
Off I go mining. After a frustrating 30 minutes of bimbling about, I had found one Void Opal core, and blown it up most satisfactorily. Then I went on my way Pulse Waving at all the rocks again to see if there were any more to be had, whereupon everything stuttered a bit before unceremoniously dumping me out with a CTD and the nice message about reporting it to Frontier. Which I did. I restarted the game, found myself back in the rings, started scanning... and then noticed two flickering triangles approaching from the edge of sensor range. Lovely - so the CTD had reset the "Have the Pirates Been In Yet" counter, and I get these two chancers who now discovered my hold had Void Opals in it
Of course, they pounced on me, and started firing off hatch-breaker limpets whilst attacking me. I was a bit miffed about this, as it wasn't my fault that the blasted game circumvented my pirate avoidance procedure, and even more so that despite the point defense, they were removing Void Opals and limpets out of my hold. Then I got mad
I powered up the beams and frag cannon on the Krait, went after the Diamondback Explorer that was attacking me, and it started to have a very bad day after that! I managed to send it's owner to a re-buy screen somewhere in npc land, and set off after the Cobra MkIV that had been tagging along with it, mostly sending out hatch-breaker limpets - I may have shouted "Do you WANT SOME then?!" at it at that point...
It didn't hang around, and high-waked out just as I got it's hull down to 6%.
Then I got back to some mining, and found two cores in quick succession - it was almost like the game was rewarding me for having CTD'd on me