doing mission like kill a Rank 3 with max Rank 5 ship

[Dread2005]

is this intended? 

 

well why does the mission scale up? if i bring 3 ships (rank5 and 2x rank7) the NPC fleet gets 3x rank 3 ships.... 

 

but the quest tells the enemy is 1x rank 3.... this is somehow a wrong concept in my eyes, i am only going to hunt open world NPCs because then its not going to scale more ships....

 

[Captain2Strong]

10 minutes ago, Dread2005 said:

is this intended?

 

yes

[Karvala]

The NPC fleet numbers are based purely on your numbers, nothing else. Is it currently intended to work that way?  Yes. Should it work that way?  Clearly not; it's one of a number of crude calculations in the game (another example: weight calculation for collecting wreck loot that totally ignores fleet ships) that could be improved with a bare minimum of effort (literally ten minutes coding?) if the devs were so inclined but it seems their focus is elsewhere.