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Greetings

I've seen several odd/interesting things in the OO universe

1) A police viper flying in a perfect circle. I watched it for some time. It did not stop until I scooped up a cargo can near it. Then it just flew away. It was a can of food. He was guarding the food?

2) While mining I found a white radar map item that turned out to be a cobra III just floating there. ID did not reveal any info for it either. I watched it for some time. eventually I blasted it. A ghoast ship? A flying Dutchman?

3) I recieved a comm message once while inside the station. It was a call for help. I launched but could not find the boa that needed help around the station. I've never recieved a com inside a station before or since.

Jar

You ain't seen nuttin' til you've seen an ice skating pig!

Jar wrote:

Greetings

I've seen several odd/interesting things in the OO universe

2) While mining I found a white radar map item that turned out to be a cobra III just floating there. ID did not reveal any info for it either. I watched it for some time. eventually I blasted it. A ghoast ship? A flying Dutchman?

That one I've also several times seen before with oolite 1.70. But on examining further it had a role of splinter. I also blasted them. When they look like splinters they must expect to end like one.

Commander Mysenses wrote:

You ain't seen nuttin' til you've seen an ice skating pig!

<sings>Well, I've seen about ev'rything, but I's nev'r seen an elephant flyyyyYYYYY!</sings>

Captain Hesperus

Welcome, commander, to The Friendliest Boards This Side Of Riedquat!

Strange things indeed, and they give taste to life...
RL has such stories: I've heard that in XIX century Imperial Brazil, the Emperor told a soldier to hold his seat on the park while he left briefly, but was diverted by other matters and forgot all about it.

You guys know the military, right? When the sergeant went looking for the soldier, he obediently reported His Imperial Majesty's order, and was relieved. This went on well into the republican XX century before it was found out by someone with good sense enough to revoke the order to guard the Emperor's empty park seat...

The British army was posting someone to guard the Duke of Wellington's horse well over a century after the horse, and the Duke, were dead... alternatively it could be that the cargo cannister was full of doughnuts.

Commander Mysenses wrote:

You ain't seen nuttin' til you've seen an ice skating pig!

I once checked out an adult zetamax tape from Inzaquma at Sleazy Pete's XXXX rental. I wish I could unsee it.

Dr. Nil wrote:

...I once checked out an adult zetamax tape from Inzaquma at Sleazy Pete's XXXX rental. I wish I could unsee it.

...ahhh... ...that must been from the same series as the one with the two naked Xerxian females and the giant Labiscan eel...

Jar wrote:

2) While mining I found a white radar map item that turned out to be a cobra III just floating there. ID did not reveal any info for it either. I watched it for some time. eventually I blasted it. A ghoast ship? A flying Dutchman?

This sounds like it could be related to this bug: -
https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?t=4458
Sounds like the same thing, but in reverse - if you get what I mean.

Jar wrote:

3) I recieved a comm message once while inside the station. It was a call for help. I launched but could not find the boa that needed help around the station. I've never recieved a com inside a station before or since.

This one 'may' be related to this: -
https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?t=4448
It seems similar - getting unusual messages whilst docked.

I don't know if these are related to your bugs, but I'm just trying to help those who know better than I!

Ace Garp wrote:

Jar wrote:

2) While mining I found a white radar map item that turned out to be a cobra III just floating there. ID did not reveal any info for it either. I watched it for some time. eventually I blasted it. A ghoast ship? A flying Dutchman?

This sounds like it could be related to this bug: -
https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?t=4458
Sounds like the same thing, but in reverse - if you get what I mean.

I don't think it's a bug -- I think it's just a Cobra III who got attacked by someone, and who ejected, but his ship didn't blow up. It's just a dead ship. That's one of the greatest thing about Oolite -- all sorts of stuff happens all over the place without the player being involved!

Ace Garp wrote:

Jar wrote:

3) I recieved a comm message once while inside the station. It was a call for help. I launched but could not find the boa that needed help around the station. I've never recieved a com inside a station before or since.

This one 'may' be related to this: -
https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?t=4448
It seems similar - getting unusual messages whilst docked.

I don't know if these are related to your bugs, but I'm just trying to help those who know better than I!

It's not the same. I got the comm window. Like I had pushed the ~ key (but I didn't). It opened up on it's own. I saw the time-tunnel for docking and then the comm window opened up. I had used the Shift-D to dock that time. I was nowhere near the ~ key.
Jar

The comm message is normal. And the missing boa is also quite normal.

When you leave a station, the in-game clock advances by 10 minutes. Even if the ship in distress isn't destroyed in the meantime, often the delay will be enough to put the ship in question out of scanner range...