Playing "basic" Foundation, no mod, Val Selton start, french language, 15+ days save.
I recently switch some patrolling ships to the police command (equiped with police scanner, 2 stars so that the command is available, into owned & not contested or contested sectors).
No forbidden ware. I noticed instead of roaming from places to places in their sector (patrol command), they go from ships to ships, acting as if they are scanning.
The problem occures, out of sector, while looking at the map, when an XL cargo seems to be scanned when it is about to cross a jump gate. I see my police ship slow down at the XL freighter, while the latter is approching the gate from behind.
The moment the freighter jumps to the next sector, it triggers a "short time reputation loss". The freighter turns red (hostile), and my police ship sets a target icon onto it, crosses the gate and attacks ... this can go mad and trigger a war.
I have a save before two of these events occure. It happened with a TEL freigther first, then an ARG freigther, two different sectors, same scenario.
There's a bit of random, when reloading, sometimes my police ships manage to check the freighters before going through the gate, no rep loss (or don't check them, no problem).
I have max rep (or allmost), police licenses. In my test, the neighboor sectors are owned by TEL (first event), and ANT (second event) ... maybe linked ? as these factions don't sell police license (only from MIN and ARG) ?
Also, these "guarded" sectors each have 6x Gorgon Vanguard police ships, looks like quite effective to reproduce these "events". And also, I notice big ships (like XL freighters), have this behaviour of crossing gate slowly from the behind, which may trigger the "scanning while crossing" to occure more frequently compared to other ships ?
It doesn't seem to be intended (right ?). For now, it makes "police" command too risky, cannot use it, might break reputation and then everything apart, I will go back to "patrol" command for now
(EDIT:spell fix)
