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µOmniVore Grand Admiral
Joined: September 13, 2006 Posts: 171
| Posted: 2007-01-28 23:56  
When you auto follow a ship and they jump away, if you are turned away
fron them and the auto follow is still active, the auto jump will signal and it
will take you directly to the ship you are following instead of disengaging it
will preform a complete jump to the target allowing the auto follow to continue to track your target.
This has been tested and conformed by me a few times to the dispare of a few ugto pilots that have managed to be tracked by me. try it out and post here for an experience.
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Peter Wiggin Midshipman
Joined: November 10, 2005 Posts: 636
| Posted: 2007-01-29 01:39  
I used to do that, but it doesnt always follow them the entire way.. if they get too far away before your jump engages, it will take you to where you last seen their ship in the F2 screen
Other than that, useful.. just dont follow into a planet..
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Raven Warriors
Joined: March 03, 2004 Posts: 2673
| Posted: 2007-01-29 02:21  
Not the wisest thing in the world to say you exploit such a bug...
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BackSlash Marshal Galactic Navy
Joined: March 23, 2003 Posts: 11183 From: Bristol, England
| Posted: 2007-01-29 06:29  
Doesn't work if they jump far enough away.
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Fattierob Vice Admiral
Joined: April 25, 2003 Posts: 4059
| Posted: 2007-01-29 06:53  
+1 brownie points for actually making a post about a possible exploitable bug and not keeping it to yourself.
this makes your current stockpile of brownie points -9,242,123
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Light-of-Aurora Grand Admiral
Joined: December 01, 2003 Posts: 602 From: NJ, USA
| Posted: 2007-01-29 08:20  
This is a bug? :/
I always found manually plotting a jump more useful.
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Ospolos Grand Admiral
Joined: January 31, 2004 Posts: 567 From: ON, CANADA
| Posted: 2007-01-29 11:00  
Hmm, so everyone purposly jump towards the sun then cancel jump when vore is going to track you?
EDIT: or any small object that would cause a collision so it is less obvious
[ This Message was edited by: Ospolos on 2007-01-29 11:11 ]
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doda *EP5 no longer exception...* Grand Admiral
Joined: December 11, 2005 Posts: 1012 From: happy land
| Posted: 2007-01-29 11:45  
not really a bug in my opinion, cause you usually end up in a star if ppl catch on.
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_x$witchBladex_ [1.480 Fanboy] Grand Admiral
Joined: February 26, 2003 Posts: 849 From: Upstate New York
| Posted: 2007-01-29 13:00  
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On 2007-01-29 06:29, BackSlash *Jack* wrote:
Doesn't work if they jump far enough away.
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$yTHe {C?} Grand Admiral Sundered Weimeriners
Joined: September 29, 2002 Posts: 1292 From: Arlington, VA
| Posted: 2007-01-29 13:43  
I found a sweet bug. But Im not telling. Lets just say it has something to do with this...
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