Lane Hackers

[Radarade]

So did a bunch of players just decide to go Lane Hacker for a day? After being away from the game for a few weeks due to family/work stuff, my first encounter upon coming back is being tailed by a LH gunboat, flying past a liberty planet into a trade lane with me. Get on the other side of a jump gate, and almost immediately hits me with a CD, THEN shouts Halt now, and demands 500k. I start lagging, get a delayed "you've got 30 sec to comply" and by the time I'm able to start shooting back I kablooie.

10/15 minutes later after I fix my net, I pop back on and spend another 5/10 minutes getting myself out of Westpointcause I'm stuck. And then, on the way to Planet Manhattan, end up getting stopped by 3 more lane hackers. Just normal players with the ID, no IFF. And again, demanding 500k. Again this ends in my destruction. So, wonderful night of Discovery RP mod.

Is there a convention going on I don't know about? o_0