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[Ed]

Drones spawned from modules (using the station drone system) cause the main ship to evade them if they have ship (not fighter) collision, and since the drone follows the ship in formation the ship keeps trying to dodge the drone forever even though the drone does not actually collide with the ship (seems like the AI doesn`t understand that)

You can see this behavior in my ships Retriever, Beauceron and Beauceron pirate in version 1.9.4 of my mod
http://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=16479.0

I will change the collision of my drones to FIGHTER until this bug is fixed starting in next version.

[Thaago]

Are the collision radii for the drones and ship appropriately sized? If they are too large it can lead to this behavior.

Can you increase the drone circling radius?

A possible solution: Create an every frame script that checks to see if the drones are circling the ship/nearby, or if they are far away, and have it set their collision class as appropriate.

[Ed]

Are the collision radii for the drones and ship appropriately sized? If they are too large it can lead to this behavior.

Can you increase the drone circling radius?

A possible solution: Create an every frame script that checks to see if the drones are circling the ship/nearby, or if they are far away, and have it set their collision class as appropriate.

The collision sizes were normal (just enough to wrap the sprite), i changed the drones into FIGHTERs to fix the issue.

[Armithaig]

Just gonna reaffirm that've run into the same here, videos included (panic, normal).
S'actually tied to HullSize not CollisionClass which'd found strange, think ya discovered as much yourself when working 'round it.