Sometimes loot doesn't drop from NPCs.

[zalsrevenge]

Hey, I'm having a strange issue. Lately I've been doing missions in Gallia. I calculated that I should make a good amount of money, seeing that cruisers usually drop 4 100k credit cards, lots of promethene and they're supposed to drop more than 1 Council pilot.

I'm noticing a problem though. Sometimes NPCs don't drop loot. Also, when I look at the cargo in these cruisers before they drop, they usually have more than one Council pilot. I think 20 or so. When those cruiser explode though, they sometimes don't drop anything. They never drop more than one Council pilot all the time though. In fact, I've never seen one drop the amount of Council pilots it has in its hold.

Is this a known issue? I searched the forum and couldn't find anything. Is this issue on my end only? Should I re-install freelancer? I'm curious. I just bought this valor, and I really don't want it to be useless for my main purpose, which is doing missions.

I guess I could do missions in Orkney against Outcasts, it's just Orkney is a somewhat contested system.

Edit: I'm flying with a GRN IFF and ID.