Patrolling Ships Kill Civilians - then rep death spiral.

[thisisoli]

So My patrolling ships are constantly killing civilian pirate ships, which I wouldn't care about, however it drops my rep with other factions, to the point that I logged on today to find two of my patrolling ships one sector over attacking what was once a fully friendly ally. 

 

Is there any way to get patrolling ships to only attack military vessels?

 

Also - Fighters from a station are relentlessly attacking a jump gate.  Bug?

[thisisoli]

I'm starting to think that these two bugs along with my AI defence fleets pretty regularly using gates when they are meant to be patrolling sector becomes game breaking pretty fast :(

 

Hope these issues get solved as EA progresses because I'm loving the game so far!

[Luminaire]

I'd hope that at some point in avorion's developement, that more captain controls are implimented, and this is one of those things I would really like to see. I don't much care for killing all the civy ships flying through, especially when i'm trying to make allies, rather than enemies, and then ofcourse, this issue arrises...

 

[Blaine]

Devs should remove the rep hit for shooting at enemy civilian ships, at least temporarily. It's really only there for flavor after all, and if it's screwing up actual faction/patrol mechanics, then that flavor isn't worth it.

[Shrooblord]

I agree. A hotfix is in order at least until proper functionality is in place. Otherwise, you're getting punished for using the actual mechanics of the game. Seems illogical.