So, since some time we have the update that when you dc and are in space, your ship floats for 3 mins. Recently i saw quite some people that logged off in front of me and their ship vanished. This happend yesterday (dunno where) and today again (right now) in Odia-M14

A normal log out doesn't have the penalty time but any hit or control usage including turbo does cancel the command. The penalty time was introduced to keep players from ripping thier network cable out forcing an immediate logout.

oh, nvm me then. didnt know its only for timeouts and not logouts.

On the other hand, this just happend in sedina b8! a mobile person who did pvp got a timeout, was continusely hit and after timeout, the ship disappeared! So i was absolutely right to report it :P

I am not very clear on what actually happened... a mobile player d/c in b8 and you couldn't destroy him in three minutes?

The d/c timeout simply leaves you floating in space unable to move or defend for about 3 minutes.

A log off requires you to sit still and not get hit or use any control commands for 10 seconds...

A bit of clarification might help.

To peg onto this, a few weeks ago I killed a guy (according to a duel), but he was lagging so bad that SOMETHING happened, and while i saw the duel say i won, his ship was barely harmed. He eventually casually strolled to the station, where his game crashed during dock. It was... kinda hilarious, actually.

Xeha, if/when that pilot logged back in, did he still have his ship? If not, perhaps you did kill him, but something failed to register and things went cukoo (again)?

No it dosnt anymore PaKettle, thats what im reporting here. It was no logoff and all hits didnt register. Once VO declared him timed out, the ship just vanished and no leftover npc ship like otherwise was there.

Yes when he logged back, he had the same ship and same health.

Interesting - seems like VO is losing track of some stuff when lag is present and cant seem to reconcile everything... Likely a server side issue but only the devs will know for sure...

It may help them if you can report exact times , locations and character names. I am sure there is a lot of log data to sift through.