If you are shooting homing missiles at a player owned trident and the owner leaves/enters the trident the missiles lose target tracking and go astray.

That explains why I undocked into a sea of fanned out swarms the other day.

This is definitely a bug.

I kinda like it that way. Not really any different than normal homing missile operation -- when the target docks (i.e. ceases to have a specific location in the sector) they lose their lock -- or in this case, undocks.

That said, I think having homing missiles re-aquire their target once it re-appears seems like it would be a technology that should be available...

Well Greenwall the trident shouldn't 'lose its specific location in the sector' because the owner decided to dock or undock from its trident.

This is about missiles locked on to the Trident itself, not someone docking or undocking with it.

If you're piloting a Trident and there's missiles locked on to you, they unlock and dumbfire if you launch with a ship. Likewise if there's missiles locked on to your unoccupied Trident, if you dock and take control, they unlock.

Well I agree, Inevitable. But it seems that's the only way the devs could figure out how to make it work... The TTM basically morphs back and forth between an PC state and an NPC state when the owner docks/undocks. One would think the devs would have avoided that if at all possible. Thus re-targetting seems the most reasonable option to address this as far as I can see.