Im a NEO and the same thing happened to me; i had 15 nomad guns in my cargo, and was atacked by burn_or_die, since i had to sell the guns i avoided him and hit cruise, he tried to disrupt it, but my ecm's made that impossible, a minute later i plot a course to malta, engage autopilot and suddently something that wasnt even in my radar shoots me and kills me; burn_or_die claimed that i was "sitting around with my ship stopped" and he just shot me untill i died. So, either some ppl cheat, and not neo because im neo and got killed that way, or these anomalies sometimes occour due to lag, or other issues.

Since you took the time to post here and you don't understand what it is, lemme explain. There seems to be a bug in FL's network code that causes ships to "jump" when you first see them if they have their cruise engines activated. You may have noticed how people are sometimes 4.9k away from you on the radar, then sit stock still, then five seconds later teleport about 3k forward. Occasionally, if the lag is bad enough, you can actually reach the person while they're sitting still to you and kill them, and to that person it looks like they simply exploded randomly.

Looks like your accusations are baseless and uninformed again Hand, sorry.

Edited by - Tasiin on 28-05-2003 02:13:15

i dont doubt it, but alot of times things on radar jump on radar from ex. 4.9 k to 3 k simply because the radar only refreshes every so often

Nah, when this happens, you can visually see them jump forwards, it's not just due to slow refresh rate ( which is also annoying, by the way ).

You chose to enter the Elite server knowing quite well it's full of pirates. Should we now hang a sign on the Elite server saying "Beware. Enter at you own risk." ?

Consider it your first and only warning.

I came. I saw. I conquered. And sometimes get conquered.
"I'm Natrunner, I don't really run TLR but I do have an understanding with those that do."

Please drop the hostilities here.... Else I'll have to insist on removing the PvP setting on Elite!!!! *CLICK*

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Christian "Bargib" Koerner
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Edited by - Bargib on 28-05-2003 08:53:09