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Originally Posted by swimsalot
Funny, it's one of those guys that was doing it.
You can see that he had no idea where I was for quite awhile.
My TMA for him was dead on, so I knew there was something wierd going on when nothing would engage.
Not a very good player, but he has a little trick to stay alive  |
When we looked at that replay from before, we were actually looking for evidence of a doctrine-level exploit, which we really didn't find any of. I don't recall ever discussing the possibility that a bug in the game was being exploited. My thoughts were that the acquisition behavior was due to being on the wrong side of the layer, or just acquiring a contact with a stronger return, etc. But, having seen it a second time, and without observing any kind of acquisition at all, it looks like a bug exploit could be the most likely explanation. I wonder if we can reproduce it to verify? That that is the case, there is a decent possibility it can be fixed at the doctrine level, since doctrines control acquistion and dropping of contacts.
EDIT: I just tried to reproduce it by shooting at myself, using a torp and an SLMM for "cover." The torp acquired me every time. I'm stumped.