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Nedif

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Am i Being Followed?
« on: September 04, 2023, 06:10:58 PM »

I wanted to add a pic but i dont know how lol, but anyway i am traveling around in the deepspace making money as a trader, then out of nowhere some kind of fleet that moved extremely fast started making circles around me and using some kind of pulse effect that said it something about draining, but good thing i made it to the system i was going fast, when i left the system about 2 more minutes another fleet came but this one was a big fleet and it was avoiding me completely, even when i used emergency burn and got hit by a thundstorm they still were way too faster, so what the hell is this?

Also i am pretty noob to this game, started playing like 1 week ago.
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Re: Am i Being Followed?
« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2023, 06:31:05 PM »

You experienced what is called a "sensor ghost", it's basically a glitch in your fleet sensors, though in-game they actually have some interesting properties.

The following will be mild spoilers on that particular mechanic.

Some of those will interdict pulse your ship, cancelling your sustained burn, you must use your own interdict pulse on them so they disappear, some will come towards you and then fly slowly away, if you follow them they'll lead you to salvage or a fleet of enemies.
Lastly the coolest one, is a sort of cloud of signal that just sits there in hyperspace, if you interdict pulse on it, it'll start creating a slipstream in the opposite direction of your fleet, so you can create a passage by putting the sensor ghost between you and your destination.
Most are simply harmless, serve no function, and are there to freak you out a little bit.
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