Lasertowers trashing my rep

[sputnik18]

This hasn't been an issue for me in TC and AP, but now I find that lasertowers seem to class certain races as foe, even when they were initially set as friend.
Example: I dropped 8 towers in Ministry of Finance as I'd been having issues with Strong Arms ships killing my freighters. I came back an hour or so later to see a Teladi transporter ship in Red and my towers showing Teladi as Foe. I was at status Company Director with the Teladi, that has taken a bashing. I was unable to set them back to friend as they would automatically change to foe. Had to undeploy them in the end. This isn't the first time, my split rep took a bashing in another sector. Just going to sell my towers for now.

[Midnightknight]

Had the issue too but could set them back to friendly after sometime. Isn't the issue that when trying to set them back to friendly they were already engaged with an enemy?

[Ramdat]

Were you IS recently? IIRC the ships can bump the lasertowers and that turns them hostile.

Slightly off-topic, but is there way to automatically and neatly deploy lasertowers in vanilla FL like the ring of fire script?

[sputnik18]

Were you IS recently? IIRC the ships can bump the lasertowers and that turns them hostile.

Slightly off-topic, but is there way to automatically and neatly deploy lasertowers in vanilla FL like the ring of fire script?

My strategy was to come though a gate, take a left or right for a couple of k's then drop the lasertowers, hence hopefully no bumping, but you never know I suppose.

[Hwitvlf]

I haven't seen this behavior, but have you tried setting 'show as enemy if enemy to me' to 'no' ? My guess would be that there was a hostile Teladi unit somewhere in sector or that a Teladi police/military unit somewhere in the universe was targeting them.

As far as the initial cause, I've seen towers cause a problem when the game generates a multi-faction group of freighters for a 'destroy trade group' mission. If your towers attack one of the ships in the convoy, the other ships become hostile and the towers kill them, then start attacking any ships from those factions.

In FL, claiming a pirate ship which was attacking a station can turn military units hostile. Perhaps one of those military units was near the tower turning it hostile.

[Midnightknight]

My issue was after claiming a ship, all the sector military turned hostile and i jumped away to avoid the issue, but my towers (that were far away and not attacked) decided to kill the Teladi civilian ships in retaliation ...
Time i saw the issue i had dropped 2 ranks ... And the funny thing is, nobody complained about my towers killing traders or civilian, my rep was going down without knowing why. It's only when i went to the sector again that i heard a "Arrrrgh" that it gave me an hint and my towers set themselves automatically hostile to Teladis while my global commands and my player ship was friendly with them ...