I have tried several times to take that mission. You have to kill the "weirdo" not damaging any of "controlled" subordinates.

The problem is that there are other bots in the sector. And THEY damage them (I think), and mission fails...

I have tried just to jump there and do nothing. After a short while it said that one of victims is damaged and the mission is failed.

I'll try to take this mission in one of central Itani sectors, where there are no too offensive bots. Possibly it would help.

The bots for the "Mind Control" mission are of faction "Unaligned", the same as Hive bots, so Hive bots don't attack them. But it is possible that something (either a Hive bot or other mission bot) is trying to attack you, and hitting one of the mission bots that's in the way.

But the first mission in that mission tree, the "Corporate Espionage" mission, has UIT ships, and Hive Bots do attack them, often causing the mission to fail.

unaligned bots attack other unaligned bots which aren't in their own group. so yeah, all of those missions are kinda broke.

also, if the poor people bump into each other they take damage and you fail ( same with the leaky bot mission)

"empty sector"?

ive had another problem with these types of missions the bots bunch up and hurt each other

> unaligned bots attack other unaligned bots which aren't in their own group. so yeah,
> all of those missions are kinda broke.

Is that new? I swear the Unaligned Hive Bots have never attacked the Unaligned mission bots in all of the missions I've done...

Hmm. Well, I think the way those mission bots get spawned they may end up in the same virtual "group" as the hive bots do. Unsure. But anyway, it's moving in that direction; unaligned bots in the future may be mutually hostile but not aggressive towards one another.

Is it possible to fix it some way?

Put damage threshold, check WHO has damaged the mission bot, substitute "damage" with "destroy", etc...

Those missions are nice, it's really sad the failure relies on /dev/random....

There's a whole new mission creator tool that has been developed and is being integrated with a whole bunch of other tools in Vendetta. Also, bot behavior is being tweaked. The mission is more likely to be replaced than fixed.