Cloning cruisers

[Agmen of Eladesor]

I was heading down to Capetown to pick up some weapons, and saw a Rheinland cruiser near the Battleship in O-15. No big deal, right?

Except - when I jumped in O-56, there he was - on my sensors...

I contacted him via PM and asked if he was still down in 15. He replied in the affirmative. Well, I had visual proof otherwise...



I closed with the Lawbringer clone, and Lawbringer actual thought I was kidding about him being in front of me - until I shot the clone, and actual started taking shield damage - in a totally different system...

So Actual came to 56 to see what was going on - and when he jumped in, Clone suddenly moved instantly somewhere else - but they were both on my scanners.



It took me a few minutes of searching, but I finally found clone - and Actual came along, too. He said he could see nothing... but the proof is in the screenshot...

(I apologize for the size of this - but unedited makes it look so much better... and we were in private chat, so no, I didn't use the //)



Actual never did see anything on his screen - but there WAS something there. He tried to shoot me directly, and as long as I had the center of clone between us, my shield lit like I was taking damage, but I never actually had my shield drop.

However, clone was transparent to missiles.

http://s345.photobucket.com/albums/p395/ma...lemissile-1.flv

But as proof that something was there - clone was NOT transparent to MY fire - you can see me hitting clone, while Actuals shield dropped...

http://s345.photobucket.com/albums/p395/ma...oubledamage.flv

I know that there were April Fools things going on - but I think this qualifies as the winner - Cloning Rheinland Cruisers...

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

[Weedalot]

The one cruiser actually came 2 min before the real one came into that system.
do not be alarmed its just the new AI reproduction system.

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♠ Because we can ♠

[dr lameos]

wow, it seems like the clone knows what we'll do before the actual one does it.

Thats some seriously crazy stuffs though

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[Weedalot]

man it jumped into the system i had 21 on TS with me, i am like : yo 21 why you showing 55k away, he is like: dude i am 30 k from the JG. i started looking for him in the sys i was in and got close, than he jumped and i asked him to line up talked him through it, nice right:P

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♠ Because we can ♠

[Zork]

i saw some clones in 4.84

it was a corsair 'lunchbox' gunboat

all on the same level with same setup


the only other thing to your colnes... i saw 4 ships


bad thing i dont have the screenshots anymore... they died with my old PC

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[Stoat]

I had the same thing happen to me in Leeds the other day. A trader passes by, says hi, then lo and behold reappears right in front of me, but not moving. I checked the location of the trader and he was in the next system.

Contacted him to confirm his location, then with his ok I started shooting the clone that was in front of me. He reported that his shields were dropping. He docked, then logged out and back in, but the clone remained on my screen.

Tested shooting him again, this time he reported no damage. He came back into the system I was in, but couldn't see the clone. When I shot the clone, he could see my fire passing through the location of the clone as if it wasn't there, while I could see the shots hitting the clone (but doing no damage).

He then shot at the area containing the clone. I could see his fire hitting it, but he saw the firing going off into the distance. I then F1d out and back in and the clone disappeared.

Odd, to say the least.

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[globalplayer-svk]

sooo, basically, someone can kill you, by shooting to your clone???
(i hope all outcasts clones will sit in front of crete:)))) )

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[Grimly]

what is this ?
awesome !

I hope I won't be cloned:)

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Taking what's yours since 816 A.S.

[SevereTrinity]

i saw some clones in 4.84

it was a corsair 'lunchbox' gunboat

all on the same level with same setup
the only other thing to your colnes... i saw 4 ships
bad thing i dont have the screenshots anymore... they died with my old PC

That was [OPG]Espada, and we were trying out names with phonetic lettering, like, different characters that the FL engine makes look the same, a bit like, but more complicated than, the small L and large I in FL.

I have an explaination for the clone remaining, however, Stoat. Your fire hit it, but did not take damage, because the server does not register the hit, or even recognize it being there, your game, however, does. It's the same as when lag kicks in, you see a SNAC hit your hull, but take no damage. Then a SNAC looks like it completely missed, but on the other persons screen it hit.

[baivan]

Its cause of the order making experiments with a nomad jumpdrive.
More such anomalies to occur .

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