When you duel challenge someone, and they leave the sector, it should make the challenge request expire.
So then it times out in two minutes or when the person leaves the sector, whichever comes first.

Or there could be a command to retract a challenge.

simple change, completely worthwhile (assuming that the duel system is worth keeping... which it probably is for the newbies). let's do it.

The duel system is not worth keeping. It's buggy anyway. Just ax the damn thing, and preferably get rid of FF restrictions everywhere but the training sectors.

But I like having a duel system. :-(

I once made two alts and made the top 5 of the duel stats by having one of them kill the other...

I once made two alts and made the top 5 of the duel stats by having one of them kill the other...

I was going to offer additional rationale for discarding the duel system, but Imp did it better than I could hope to. Haha

Some newbs inflate their kill/death stats by running from deserved death. Maybe we should scrap the whole combat system.

i want my guns to shoot hearts and teddy bears

Attaches 5 tons of C4 to peytros ship.. teddy bears and all ;)