Question for Cannon

[Agmen of Eladesor]

Cannon (and any other server monkeys that may be around), I've a question that came up from game play tonight. And I'm incredibly irked at myself, as I forgot to have FRAPS running when it happened, but anyway...

I was pursuing someone - and yes, he probably could've made it. But anyway - I'm right at 4K behind him, and suddenly he starts slowing down just a little. (We're both on cruise - no shots have actually been fired yet, just my threat to turn his Order ship into scrap metal.) I think he's EK'd, so I do the same, so I'm ready to fight him. I continue to close slightly - then right when I'm 3K behind him - poof, he vanishes and the log off message shows up.

So - what's the distance at which the 'XX is engaging cloaking device' becomes active, and if someone just switches accounts in mid-flight - does the cloaking message actually come up? And no, the guy didn't jump - we weren't even to the Zoner satellite AND as I said, the 'XXX has logged off' message came up.

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Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.