[1.5 beta-1]HOP Freighters killed in Argon Prime at player construction area. Is this intended to happen?

[XTC0R]

Hello,

I created a huge station complex (still in construction) in Argon Prime (~120 mio CR).

A lot of the freighters waiting to dock at the construction storage and most of them are from HOP which are at war with the argon federation.

Now my queations:

- Is it intended that freighters bring resources in enemy territory? They just get slaughtered waiting to dock at my construction storage.
- Why do the freighters not fight together? It's always 1 freighter vs argon prime fleet. But there sometimes 20-30 big freighters from HOP. If they would fight together the battle would be more interesting.
- Can we have an option in the construction menu to only allow resources from certain fractions? My constructions get delayed because the freighters are all killed.
- An option to assign more than one construction ship to speed up construction would be nice.

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[MasterBata]

Well, they are at war so it is to be expected.
I think trader behavior is not yet optimized. Traders will routinely go into hostile space and get blown to pieces. Miners are even worse, they will wander into XEN sectors...

[DeFragMe]

and the best part, they even trade with the enemy, not careing that they will die on the way.

Xenon for example still accept non-xenon ship deliverys (wich die on their way) and Xenon Transportships still try to sell stuff on non xenon stations... it really is hillarious as i saw a xenon dorne yesterday fly to my station iam constructing and it startet supplying the pier..... god bless those xenon..

now if only the khaak would be so nice too..

[DaMuncha]

I have this in 1.32. It was a total cluster duck. Swarms of TEL fighters were knocking out the HOP freighters with MY wares. so HOP send thier fleet to defend them, then ARG sent freighters with a fighter escort, and with a few disguised pirates flying around harassing my own ships. I was out there trying to fend off pirates and trying to build my station in the middle of it. Then a pirate goes and switches his ID a couple of times and and started a HUGE battle with TEL, HAT, Pirates, ARG, and HOP in massive open warfare right in front of my base. WIth my ships haphazardly trying to collect all the loot that dropped. In the end it was Argon that won and when they left the entire sector and sectors around Grand Exchange were completely empty of any fighter craft. I lost millions due to lost resources, but managed to collect far more than I lost.

It was this war that the games cracks realy started to show. My ships could not collect the drops, they would not obey my orders, the ship pathing was haywire, had ships both thiers and mine in all directions spazzing out, getting stuck inside asteroids, smashing into each other, refusing to even respond or take new orders, the FPS count was horribly low, the map was a mess of dropped crates, and destroyed ships, and after it was over I had to clean up the mess.

[Tyrant597]

So you're saying... You got to fly out and pick up the resources for free that they were going to sell you?? =)