I've had this happen to me a couple times and I'm just curious about it: I zone into an enemy contact and am immediately surrounded by 2-3 Romulan Warbirds and their escorts.
Is this just a quirk of the NPC pathing or was it put in for a reason?
The only thing I can think of is to prevent people from sitting at the spawn point untouched while everyone else in the instance engages the enemy.
I find the ship mob that includes the Enemy Flagship tends to path to the spawn point for Deep Space Encounters if they aren't killed off.
They also seem to disappear each time the instance resets and starts the kill counter going again.
Annoying for sure, since you can't pick to enter a fresh instance and may get thrown into one that won't reset for 3 minutes and you're mobbed by 5 to 7 ships.
I use Evasive Maneuvers to fly off and get about 20km away to wait for the reset. Or change instances until I get one with an active kill counter.
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They also seem to disappear each time the instance resets and starts the kill counter going again.
Annoying for sure, since you can't pick to enter a fresh instance and may get thrown into one that won't reset for 3 minutes and you're mobbed by 5 to 7 ships.
I use Evasive Maneuvers to fly off and get about 20km away to wait for the reset. Or change instances until I get one with an active kill counter.