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Posted August 19, 2016
I was mining a lot of heridium on the surface of the planet and the sentinel flew by me multiple times and didn't care. Is this a bug or have I reached such a high opinion with the Korvax that the sentinels don't care anymore if I mine?
Post edited August 19, 2016 by cyion
Posted August 19, 2016
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cyion: I was mining a lot of heridium on the surface of the planet and the sentinel flew by me multiple times and didn't care. Is this a bug or have I reached such a high opinion with the Korvax that the sentinels don't care anymore if I mine?
Sentinels come with different stages of "alertness" (shown while landing on any planet/moon). Additionally they will react different to mining and actually killing beings/things.

Been at a place where the info at landing showed the sentinel as being "frenzied", printed in red.
So yes, they differ a lot in the way they will react on your behavior.

Once your tool has the upgrade for this shrapnell kind of "ammo", sentinels will become more or less harmless and easy to nuke.
Posted August 19, 2016
Yep the Sentinels ignore you if you are mining Gold, Heridium and Irdium, but chase you for everything else!
Posted August 19, 2016
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cyion: I was mining a lot of heridium on the surface of the planet and the sentinel flew by me multiple times and didn't care. Is this a bug or have I reached such a high opinion with the Korvax that the sentinels don't care anymore if I mine?
No, they don't care about mining those pillars and mounds of elements. That's nice when you find big pillar of Nickle or Gold, you can't stand there and mine it. If you land on a planet that say this about the sentinels, just get back in your ship and leave. I was lucky I didn't have to start over. They wouldn't stop hunting me down. They trashed my ship and I couldn't fix it since they were outside pounding on my ship. This is after I died twice. I couldn't kill them, they were untouchable.

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Post edited August 19, 2016 by misscrabtree456
Posted August 19, 2016
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cyion: I was mining a lot of heridium on the surface of the planet and the sentinel flew by me multiple times and didn't care. Is this a bug or have I reached such a high opinion with the Korvax that the sentinels don't care anymore if I mine?
In caves is also good spot just watch out for openings above where they might sneak into them.

I don't mind them though really for me they are flying free resources ;)
Plasma nade doors open one hit... walk in.
Post edited August 19, 2016 by Regals
Posted August 19, 2016
In fact if you can cut a hole in mound, no matter what it contains the sentinel will fly by.

On some worlds the sentinels will attack you on sight, even if you are just standing there.
Posted August 19, 2016
And look out if you find a planet with tons of glowing Orbs, they will attack on sight and if you take one they call in the Calvary. I totally plundered one such planet and barely made it off, only to have 3 Cruisers warp in. I got an alert similar to the pirate alert saying "Warning, Sentinel Ships Approaching" and they opened fire! I high tailed it out of there to the nearest Star Base and made $1,000,000 credits off of my haul!
Posted August 19, 2016
I still don`t understand what the deal is with these sentinels. They are on every planet, nosing around everything. Were they some long lost auto-bot of a long dead race left to guard their fave resource and someone forgot to switch them off? Also, where the heck do they get their reinforcments from? The Ether? If I could just find one planet without these suckers on them I`d be happy.
Posted August 19, 2016
There seems to be multiple issues with the sentinel logic. I once went into a cave to hide from them. They didn't come into the cave but were firing at me from above from the other side of the solid rock. Even though their fire did not enter the cave, it depleted my shield.

In another case, I ducked into a hut to hide. Eventually I opened the door and a sentinel came into the hut. Once inside it was trapped and could not find its way out. A second sentinel kept buzzing around the hut, apparently looking for its friend.
Posted August 19, 2016
So far I also haven't had any problems with sentinels while mining those mounds and pillars. I think the sentinels only watch over any kind of flora and fauna. Obviously crystals (Plutonium, Aluminum, ...) count as flora, but mounds and pilars don't. I just don't know why they care so much about steel doors and outposts. But well, who really understands those sentinels anyway?
Posted August 19, 2016
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sarmitage: There seems to be multiple issues with the sentinel logic. I once went into a cave to hide from them. They didn't come into the cave but were firing at me from above from the other side of the solid rock. Even though their fire did not enter the cave, it depleted my shield.

In another case, I ducked into a hut to hide. Eventually I opened the door and a sentinel came into the hut. Once inside it was trapped and could not find its way out. A second sentinel kept buzzing around the hut, apparently looking for its friend.
I've seen creatures run through the roof of caves as well :/
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