I'm currently about 5500LY from the bubble making my first solo exploration trip and I have this NPS fer-De-Lance following me. He's popped up intermittently for atleast the last 3000LY. No contact, no interdiction attempts. Sometimes he just jumps out before me. Sometimes I get out before him. Is this normal?
NPC's out in the middle of nowhere
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Are you pledged to any power in power play? It's mechanics can sometimes make NPC's follow you around to hilarious results if you happen to go exploring. I heard of instances where people managed to get NPC's follow them all the way to Sag A...
Does this ghostly figure have a name? And an approximate area where you first picked it up?
And if the OP says "Azamat Bagatov" I'm calling this a troll thread
Not gonna lie. I lol'd pretty hard at that.
I haven't even scaned him yet. I'll spin back and scan him next time I see him. Hopefully he isn't hostle.
So He just popped up again. I did a 180 and scaned him. His name is Genibo and it says he's a mission target. His status is Lawless as well. I have no missions but I have actually seen him once before. Last sunday, a few friends and I went for a small exploration trip to VY Canis Majorus and the same NPC showed up while we were out that way. Weird.
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It's a bug that turns up sometimes when you fail a mission.
See him as a bit of company. He just wants to be friends
The opportunity here is to bring the first ever FDL to Beagle Point
The opportunity here is to bring the first ever FDL to Beagle Point
He'll have his work cut out... there's already one well on the way!
https://twitter.com/Tommeh1993/status/721533303065571328
That guy - yep, known feature/bug. Had one of those tagging along inside the bubble for some time. He occasionally jumped in when I dropped into a USS and helped me aaginst the pirates. He once jumped in when I was in a USS and attacked me. That was when I completed that mission I had no idea I had....
Personally, I belive that this companion somewhat predates ED. My failing memory seems to dredge up a similar follower occasionally in EV:Nova, some time ago on my Mac. I'd really like to know how the source code trees of Elite, Escape Velocity and Eliteangerous are interwoven....
Personally, I belive that this companion somewhat predates ED. My failing memory seems to dredge up a similar follower occasionally in EV:Nova, some time ago on my Mac. I'd really like to know how the source code trees of Elite, Escape Velocity and Elite
angerous are interwoven....