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Jul 04, 2008 Snax_28 link
[Fri Jul 4 15:33:51 2008] Gavan Ardgall destroyed Moda Messolus
[Fri Jul 4 15:33:51 2008] Combat +350
[Fri Jul 4 15:33:53 2008] [100] <razor-wind> lol

[Fri Jul 4 15:33:54 2008] Gavan Ardgall was killed with extreme prejudice.

[Fri Jul 4 15:33:57 2008] [100] <razor-wind> i ment
[Fri Jul 4 15:33:58 2008] You are entering Jallik E-15
[Fri Jul 4 15:34:01 2008] People in the room: Gavan Ardgall
[Fri Jul 4 15:34:01 2008] You are now in Jallik Watch (Itani Research).
[Fri Jul 4 15:34:03 2008] 9284 credits deducted from your account.
[Fri Jul 4 15:34:04 2008] 3462 credits deducted from your account.
station error: Don't know what that item is.
station error: Don't know what that item is.
[Fri Jul 4 15:34:06 2008] Items purchased.
[Fri Jul 4 15:34:06 2008] Total cost of purchase is 12746 credits
[Fri Jul 4 15:34:15 2008] [100] <Moda Messolus> "Gavan Ardgall" loose the cheat
[Fri Jul 4 15:34:16 2008] [100] <Thesaadri> I'm fairly sure it doesn't work like that. But okay.
[Fri Jul 4 15:34:25 2008] [300] <Gavan Ardgall> Gavan Argall was killed with extreme prejudice?

I was furballing in Verasi O-7 with TGFT at the time....
Jul 04, 2008 Impavid link
It happened to Shar last night the exact same way, and Moda was there complaining then too. I think Moda did it to both of them.

http://clm-vo.com/smf/index.php/topic,565.0.html

Shar posted:
Oh and when it killed me, it just said "Shar was killed with extreme prejudice"

Jul 04, 2008 LeberMac link
Hunh. That's interesting. I wonder what would do THAT?
Jul 04, 2008 Shadoen link
The "unknown entity" kill was registerd in my PVP log, so I gues it was a player who killed me.
Jul 04, 2008 slime73 link
If you were killed by Unknown Entity it means it can't find a name for the thing which killed you, which is generally caused by /oper /kills.

Why are people being oper-killed without given a reason?
Jul 04, 2008 Shadoen link
Elementary, my dear slime.
However, the question is not why, but who?

/me grabs his bubble pipe and a deerstalker cap.
Detective Sharlock on the case.
Jul 04, 2008 iry link
It also happens if you are killed for example by a players missiles/ rockets in more or less the same instant they are due to be de-spawned because the launching pilot was killed. Happened to me a while back in Border Skirmish when killed by a swarm volley which had looped around, and struck me a little after the launching person had officially left the sector (No longer listed on sector ship list, not merely shipless).
Jul 04, 2008 MSKanaka link
It's possible that severe lag could cause this, if the person who killed you left the sector before your client realized you'd been killed.
Jul 04, 2008 moldyman link
[Fri Jul 4 15:33:54 2008] Gavan Ardgall was killed with extreme prejudice.

^ is the /oper kill command message. I did it to myself when the PCC had admin commands for a few minutes (accidentally), years ago. So there's no question about that.

Poke Inc directly, or mom, ask them to check the log.
Jul 04, 2008 Shadoen link
I remember I was using a ragnarok and had more than 50% health remaining, then suddenly I exploded. I'm pretty sure it wasnt swarms or flares.
Jul 04, 2008 LeberMac link
Current theory is that Gavan and Shar were both killed by flares or other "persistent" weapons which were still active after the firing entity left the sector or died.

Apparently, that will also cause the "Extreme Prejudice" message.

However, digging too deep for answers might reveal answers that nobody wants. How far to you REALLY want to take this, Gav?
Jul 04, 2008 Snax_28 link
Not sure what you're implying, but if someone is cheating then I would hope that if the means exist to figure out who, then they would be utilized as such.

If no one is, and it's a bug that's happened twice in two days, then I would think the devs would want to sort it out.
Jul 04, 2008 Suicidal Lemming link
Neither of you have /oper /kills on your records within the past month or so.
Jul 04, 2008 look... no hands link
"However, digging too deep for answers might reveal answers that nobody wants"

dammit im already paranoid enough
Jul 04, 2008 raybondo link
According to the logs, Gavan Ardgall killed himself with a lightning mine explosion. I don't know why it said Unknown Entity, but we're looking into it.

So, Snax_28, can you verify that you had lightning mines around?
Jul 04, 2008 blacknet link
yes lmines were in that sector but not the other sectors. This whole thing may explain the weirdness I saw Gavan doing which was why I ask what he was using on 100. The weirdness was happening in multiple sectors as well. When I first ran into him it in Artana it was not there.

FYI gavan was in an X1 valk, so impossible for him to have lmines. I think I did try lmines at some point during this whole mess. That was at the verasi/edras wormhole.
Jul 04, 2008 Shadoen link
By weirdness do you mean lag (jumpy)?

Btw, I was using Lmines when it happened.
Jul 04, 2008 blacknet link
jumpy? nope, that would be explainable and classic.
Jul 04, 2008 Snax_28 link
No I didn't have lightning mines, but if Blacknet/Moda (I'm assuming that's the connection) had l-mines, and dropped them just before I killed him as he tried to jump out... Could be what happened.

Also, I don't have any idea if the "Unknown Entity" thing showed up on my end of the issue as I didn't look at my sensor log at all, nor did I notice it on the sector com...
Jul 05, 2008 slime73 link
What kind of weirdness, Moda? Framerate drops?