Only the capships attacked me the entire last border skirmish. I could attack and kill any small ship; they'd just ignore me and attack my capital ships.

It made it easy for me just to fly around my capital ship, and kill enemy bots when they got near.

The current mechanism for NPCs choosing targets doesnt work well at all in BS; the NPC capships do the most damage to the enemy group long-term, and are therefore the highest priority targets, leading the NPC fighters to fly right into them like mosquitoes into a bugzapper. We're working on it :)

Is it possible to make the NPC fighters ignore all shielded ships except the terradons?

Also I've noticed that hits on ships like the terradons don't always register. Causes problems for attempting to defend your own cap ships against it. We end up having to wait until it engages the HAC to finish off the shields. In doing so the HAC tends to lose its shields as well.

Edit: Hits were registering today, guess it's was just lag issues.

I noticed that at the beginning of the mission both the serco and itani small fighters spawn at the same place in b12 and have a fight amongst themselves, rather than moving out to protect capships .

Later on as they spawn to replace losses they do spread out and engage other targets .