looks like a broken mining beam - ive seen a rare few of these before. did anyone else see it? is it still there?

I ~THINK~ it happens if someone mines and they are lagging really badly. Actually, I hope it doesn't go away, it always looks pretty cool.

If someone is mining when you kill them, and they are homed there, the mining beam sticks around until they undock or log. I've seen beams long enough to reach the clipping point, seems if they stick around long enough the beams will keep growing forever.

I saw a HE beam in a L10 furball once going from one of the roids right to station. So many of us were confused.

i seen this a few times when i kill critical queens, also while we talking about long beams, what does that levi use lmao it can be 1km away from its mining roid with a beam on it still.

Thanks. I dunno why it's happening yet.

It happens because the player dies, and does not despawn to change sector, as they are homed there so the mining beams state never changes.

Also @some dev passing thru.
Back in LTS testing I noticed something glitchy with capships: if you put an mining beam on a capships, get in it, start mining while under control of it and get out it keeps mining. Ok. That's fine. But if you get out then do follow command (/hail, tab "follow") and it follows you out of range. The mining beam will cut but the mining won't stop until you redock. Minor glitch so I didn't mention it till this happened. Also +1 ghost beams must stay :D