Quite recently, I've had 2 situations in FL, which I couldn't explain in any way. First one was in NY, I was in the badlands and had someone on the scanner. He was 80 (!)K away from me. There was no lag on me and the person I could see was in Hamburg according to long-rang scanners (player list).
There were suspicions, that this object was the freeport, NPC, player, even a rock. However all these options were quickly abandoned, since its shape doesn't resemble the Freeport, a player would be seen on the scanner, NPCs don't fly that close to the sun and rocks are too far to be seen in that particular part. What was even more peculiar, the mentioned object appeared targetable as "object unknown"
I open this little archive for all, who have experienced weird things in FL (not obvious lag effects or cheating)
We have dispatched an investigation team soon after the sighting has been reported. The Exploration vessel and Battlestar however could not find anything.
I've spent half an hour kissing the sun and so did the other ship. To no avail. We couldn't see anything.
It's a really interesting one. Something is clearly on that pic and bases/NPCs are the last things it resembles.
Yea there's something screwy with the suns in T-37. You can fly closer to them than normal. Although how close, I haven't tried:P
ooc: I did when editing that system... you can get REALLY close to those things. Didn't see that object though, so mabye I removed it while editing? Anyways, it looks like that Nomad Base in the Dyson Sphere (And in Newcastle) to me.
BTW. I think this might be the wrong forum for this topic... flood mabye?
EDIT: oops, you said Tau-37, not 44.... -hits self- Ah well, they look similar. Anyways, you can get pretty close to the tau-44 suns too...
my video card has been doing bad lately, so maybye that could be it.
and temp, the thing you had in NY, its nothing. i once had some one in radar, 147k away, in omi theta, while the guy himself was in Omega 41.
Well I guess that adds to the creepiness of Freelancer like I remember it was my first time going into unknown from gamma and it was pretty creepy with the graveyard of innocents and nomads. Omircron lost feels creepy since your all alone in nomad space. (way back in 4.82)