NPCs initiating and engaging FSD while landed/inside station
- Thread starter anikaiful
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Those elite pilots can be cheeky 
I'd like to see that. How often is it happening?
I'd like to see that. How often is it happening?
Well, just target a NPC leaving the dock, you will get the "surge detected" info, while he is still in the letterbox. But i havent really noticed jumps inside or very close to a station... Anika, screenshot?
I thought this was an ancient bug?
It is an ancient bug.
You usually see it if your the first player to arrive at the station in a new session (before the NPC traffic spawns). You can see hyperspace trails coming from inside the station and going through the walls. They are actually jumping from the landing pads/hangers too :/
You usually see it if your the first player to arrive at the station in a new session (before the NPC traffic spawns). You can see hyperspace trails coming from inside the station and going through the walls. They are actually jumping from the landing pads/hangers too :/
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Yeah - they seem to spool up as soon as they are in the slot. They can't jump until they have left the mass lock anyway so they must be setting up an awful amount of unnecessary heat while they wait. Seems just a bit of a flaw in the coding of the AI doesn't it? As well as that, I have a personal objection to the "surge detected" for a frameshift drive engaging - there is no "surge" to be detected, the ship hasn't changed velocity at all. It seems to me that this message is misleading. I would have thought surge detected really only applied to the boost in thrusters.
Didn't occur to me to take one - was just too surprised to. I'll take when it happens again. But yea, mass lock didn't affect this particular NPC - warped from within station.
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