I was queening yesterday and last week in Pyronis and in Rhamus (part of a HS mission). In all cases, the queen escort didn't attack until the queen was dead.

-- Schelling

That's how it's supposed to work.

yeah ...I'm seeing the same thing with non hive skirmish queens. The escorts used to attack whoever entered the the sector first.

edit: hey .. looks like bots are more territorial too. I couldn't space anymore.

Actually, you can get the escort bots to attack. If it's a double Queen, and you have two players attacking, once the "escort" Queen is dead the bots will attack the remaining player if either player leaves the sector. Oddly, the bots will then only go after one player at a time, completely ignoring the other. It's possible to make the bots lose all aggro and return to their "Follow the Queen" behavior by both jumping out and back in, though this doesn't always work (specific jump order, perhaps?).

take all escorts down to the low red, then take both queens down to the low red with no shields. Boom one queen and everything will follow.

if not a bug this is a problem in that Queens currently are too easy to kill. Sort of boring so escort does need to have mix of aggression for player to deal with.

This is still the case.

Just killed a queen in Dau D-10 and none of the escorts defended themselves.

I've been queening in Dau before and they have not defended themselves since my first few attempts at queen hunting.