Originally by: Zrakor

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Probably any dungeon/complex room that has multiple 'groups' will have this 'drone issue'. It's basically a drone mechanic issue and has nothing to do with the mission code per say. But I'd hazard a guess that it affects most level 4 missions, how severly depends upon how the entity groups are set up, i.e. how close their aggro ranges are.

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Originally by: Archo X

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Originally by: Bob Smackalof

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Enemies Abound (1 of 5)

/me releases drones to get frigs
/me sees there are taking damage and scoops them
/me dies
/me swears

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Ditto

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Originally by: Xori Ruscuv

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Originally by: Supox

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Edited by: Supox on 26/05/2006 17:38:49
I guess I should read the forums more often. If this is a bug, I'd like to get my Raven back after losing it in the Guristas 2nd stage of lvl 4 Worlds Collide. I released my drones to try and combat the 'welcoming committee' and the whole room aggro'd me and took me out in short order.

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I have heard of people getting ships back because of agro bugs before...

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Originally by: Xori Ruscuv

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Originally by: Bob Smackalof

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Good, helps me cause then.

(Well, hopefully)

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Good luck, mate!

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Originally by: Archo X

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Originally by: Zrakor

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Edited by: Zrakor on 26/05/2006 17:26:11
I can't answer if it's regarded being a bug or accepted drone behavior. The GMs would have to answer that question . But I did forward this thread to our testing department.

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Any chance we could get a GM to give an official answer on this? I have a petition out and other people say they have been reimbursed so is it the luck of the draw with GMs or is this to be expected?

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Originally by: Zrakor

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Originally by: D'onryu Shoqui

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btw since when did GM's become more importaint than the people who make the game? its like police becoming more powerful than the people who make the rules and makes no sense

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GMs are the people who should answer you about reimbursement claims. They aren't 'more powerful' than the devs, they're just fully capable of making most of these decisions themselves. When in doubt they come to us.

I think the main problem is it's hard, and in most cases probably impossible, to verify that someone was hit by a drone 'bug' or not. I believe in many of these cases the player simply managed to grab aggro in a non-buggy way, he simply made a mistake. Drones are also much harder to control than your ship for example, which is by design.

That's why I don't want to answer that question right now. I don't want to get people's hopes up about reimbursement.

The programmers are still looking into drone behavior and the testers are still trying to flesh out all the bugs and precise reproduction steps.

Also most of these drone bug reports are very vague and impossible to confirm if it's actually a bug or just a mistake on the players part.

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