I dunno if the server will detect it, but getting things that other players wont be able to get unless they have that patch or whatever is cheating, so if you were found out you would most likely be banned. Most servers have a NO CHEATS NO MODS rule, and you would be breaking it.

Thanks fore the quick response. 15 mins?
I was wondering about this, because i fought of trying this out.
I seem to be having some problems with loot in MP.
Story:
Somebody on a server called me and said : "FREE LOOT. COME AND GET IT". I went to his position and there was tons of loot. I picked up a full load of it and went to sell it. When i came back, it was still there(So was the player). We did a couple of runs to the nearest base with the good stuff and i left him to it again. He went offline a couple of mins later, and i was back to my own thing again.
A little later, he came back online. And he told me that the loot, we left behind, was still there. When i destroy some transports, the loot i leave behind doesnt seem to stay.

Could someone please clarify the physics of loot fore me. When does it stay a long time, and how long does it then stay?.

*NOTE*
If this is the dumbest question ever, Please have mercy on this poor newbie. I couldnt find the answer anywhere.

yep it if you pick it up which means you will have to manual tractor from those wrecks not to get banned so best with it off. As I've set my FL monitor to auto ban for anything not avaliable normally and that inlcudes the Paralyzer launchers.

As for free cargo, it depends where and who is nearby. So if there is another player within 4km of the cargo then it will stay as long as that player is near it. I f noone then good chance it will dissappear, but not always.

But you have to be careful with people online that offer FREE cargo, sometimes there out just to get someone banned and use a spawn cheat to fire off cargo so getting you to either level up too quick or trigger the auto cheat kick or in my servers case auto ban if its something never normally avaliable without a mod.

Cool
Thanks fore the info

I'll just leave my freelancer as it is then. And since i dont want to be a cheater, i'll be careful in the future, when someone calls me about anything FREE

*Edit*
btw. You said: "It will stay as long as that player is near it. I f noone then good chance it will dissappear, but not always." Is this a bug in the game? or does it have something to do with the amount of it?

Edited by - Symbiont One on 1/20/2004 1:31:46 AM

Some systems the cargo will stay for Days if no-one is about, I've had cargo still there in Hudson a day after a lane hacking spree when I went back to my server and no-one else was near by and hadn't picked it up. Sometimes in TAU37 as well, but usually it stays for about a minute then its removed.

I was under the impression that the loadouts of the wrecks is server side - so servers can remove the loot - so not sure about hobbes cheat for wrecks loot to be honest.......

Basically by this i mean that unless the server has the same mod running - you will pick up nothing from the wrecks........