Ever Run Into Yourself In Game?

[Schmack]

I was doing some pirate kill missions yesterday and targeted one with my name. Just first name, but he only had one name and it was mine. I was hesitant being that he was obviously a special creature, but eventually he had to die too.

I've encountered 1st and last names of friends while playing. I sent them screenshots. Pretty odd.

 

[Deleted member 38366]

Haha, I've only ever seen this happen once in a Wing for a Wing mate

If I was FDev, I'd have coded an Easter Egg into NPCs as soon as they encounter their "patron" name-giver.
Special chat lines and odd behaviour (i.e. "No! It can't be! I've met my Master" or "Nooo! There can be only ONE !!!")

 

[Bottom Hat]

I had to hesitate once with killing David Attenborough, but it was brief. And it's not my name. So it's not much of an anecdote really, but meh...!

 

[thistle]

Has anyone seen a David Cameron? Missing since 2016. Would kill.

 

[thistle]

And in game too. I suppose.

 

[rrobes]

Here's an oldie goldie:

I've run into Ludwig Van several times, after you kill him, he just decomposes.

Those of you who have read this before, just move on, nothing to see here.

 

[FlyingBrickyard]

I had to hesitate once with killing David Attenborough, but it was brief...

Several times here as well. Apparently by the 34th century he's given up on documentaries and switched careers to piracy.

Though on the last one I could have sworn I heard, "And here we see the Krait in its natural environment..." drifting in over the radio before it all went funny.

 

[d8veh]

I have an unusual surname. In real life, I've never met anybody with the same name except family, though I have seen it from time to time in lists; however, I have seen clusters of passengers with my surname when doing passenger missions. Of courese, I always feel obliged to take them first. I also found an NPC crew with the same name, who I hired for a while.

 

[Bottom Hat]

I have an unusual surname. In real life, I've never met anybody with the same name except family, though I have seen it from time to time in lists; however, I have seen clusters of passengers with my surname when doing passenger missions. Of courese, I always feel obliged to take them first. I also found an NPC crew with the same name, who I hired for a while.

Now I want to guess, but I'm afraid I might get into trouble...!

 

[gorankar]

There can be only one.

 

[Trollymctrollerson]

It would be cool if the game cloned your ship build complete Engineering to face you

 

[Bryan K]

There used to be a bug where you could literally run into yourself in and around player-crowded stations.

On multiple occaisions I’d run into a nameless “player” with my identical ship and ship name, with every identical cosmetic option, on the same landing platform I’d left minutes earlier. After this happened enough times with enough different ships, I realized that it was actually my ship, just duplicated and empty by some freak bit of code.

I even ran into my own Corvette which got cloned a moment before I low-waked out of a station instance. Came back to find it just hanging in space, with all its heatsinks extended, humming like it was about to jump, but never did.

 

[FlyingBrickyard]

There used to be a bug where you could literally run into yourself in and around player-crowded stations.

On multiple occaisions I’d run into a nameless “player” with my identical ship and ship name, with every identical cosmetic option, on the same landing platform I’d left minutes earlier. After this happened enough times with enough different ships, I realized that it was actually my ship, just duplicated and empty by some freak bit of code.

I even ran into my own Corvette which got cloned a moment before I low-waked out of a station instance. Came back to find it just hanging in space, with all its heatsinks extended, humming like it was about to jump, but never did.

Sounds like you fell into an episode of Star Trek...

 

[varonica]

I have an unusual surname. In real life, I've never met anybody with the same name except family, though I have seen it from time to time in lists; however, I have seen clusters of passengers with my surname when doing passenger missions. Of courese, I always feel obliged to take them first. I also found an NPC crew with the same name, who I hired for a while.

Nepotism never ends well! I on the other hand have a common surname and have never seen anyone else with it so I guess that's never going to be a problem for me.

 

[VR Jay Le Chardon]

Nepotism never ends well! I on the other hand have a common surname and have never seen anyone else with it so I guess that's never going to be a problem for me.

Erm, surely that means your surname is inherently uncommon?

 

[Faded Glory]

I had to hesitate once with killing David Attenborough, but it was brief. And it's not my name. So it's not much of an anecdote really, but meh...!

I've destroyed David Attenborough a few times, always seemed to be wrong that he was a wanted villain...

I've also destroyed both Braben and David Braben - and seen my own actual name on an NPC - once, but that was ages ago.

 

[Bryan K]

Sounds like you fell into an episode of Star Trek...

Only there was no event horizon or attractive female half-Klingon engineer to be found.

 

[Chorda]

Yeah, i had an old college friend's name show up as a mission giver, not a typical name either.

 

[varonica]

Erm, surely that means your surname is inherently uncommon?

My theory is that the entire population of the world bearing my surname were killed during the great 2020 pandemic, so while it was popular once, it's now a curse and anyone seen bearing that same name should be instantly burnt as a warning to other not to disturb the elder gods!

 

[VR Jay Le Chardon]

I could buy that, I might even light a candle as an offering to Randominous to fulfil those wishes...