something odd ...my health was 96% ...I jumped to another sector and for no reason it went down to 94% ... flew on thinking I must have imagined it ... sometime later I went back (I was on a pickup mission) through the same gate and my health jumped back to 96% ...

... so .. am I going crazy, are there space gremlins(yam yam) at work or did this ever happen to anyone else?

I think this happened to me atleast once in 3.4 too ... but I may have imagined it ... since I seem to be attracted by rocks my health is almost never full and decreases spontaniously. :P

code gnomes.

I think it has a little to do with the laggy bots.

yea... lag does that.
you'd think you weren't hit, and the bot far away; but then damage is done from seemingly nowhere!

they cause the health to jump back up too?

yep I ENTERED the gate with 96, CAME OUT with 94 and the reverse :P

and there are usually no bots, except NPCDEF, in gate sectors. I could have rammed a rock though, but that doesn't explain the going up again.