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What happened:
The personal laser defenses inserted into spidertrons or players' grids do not target these specific two nests, and the spidertron rockets also do not target them.
What I expected to happen:
- Personal laser defenses and rockets should work always, targeting both bugs and spawners


My theory:
It's possible that these two nests were the ones that I had fired capture rockets at many game hours ago, and allowed to decay. I could easily imagine that the code that prevents personal lasers and rockets from destroying captured nests got "stuck" after they had returned to being regular nests

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This is by design, it's to allow you to re-capture them. If you don't want that, you can manually shoot them with the shoot-manually key.

Yep, I had totally missed the label on the nests that said "protected from automated firing"! Makes a lot of sense, thanks!