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It's likely that none of what led to this issue is actually recommended or supported, but as it's *possible* I feel I should mention it.
One of the players on my server got into his mind to create a giant cube arena for ship combat and testing. Really big. It takes up most of a sector. And in order to make sure that it wouldn't be damaged by contestants, he decided to attach it to our faction's home base with a long pole. The arena and our base are in two adjacent but still different sectors. Already, then, we've gone over the recommended build size and we've also built across sectors which I'm almost certain is not something that should be done. But, there we are. That's the setup, now the FUN.
We were going to fly out to the arenacube, show it to a new player and maybe have a quick match with some fighters. As we followed the pole, we crossed the sector boundary...and suddenly we were elsewhere. At first we were confused. After a while, we realized we were on the *other side* of the sector the arena was in, with the arena invisible, and rapidly be pushed into the next sector over. When we returned to the sector with our base in it, we ended up coming from the other side of it. After playing with this a bit, we determined that he had invented a short range jump gate via glitches and bugs. Now, in build mode that cube is still there, but we can't see or interact with it outside of build mode, and it moves us around.
Next this player had me sit on the pole in space right on the sector boundary, and he started building walls. I could not see them, but I was immediately forced several hundred meters straight up (relative) and every time I flew back down to the same spot, I was forced back up again. At this point we declared him grand space wizard and all logged off to sleep.
Upon examining the server logs, we were all being snapped to drastically different coordinates from where we started out upon entering the sector. Likely it saw that we crossed the boundary, tried to place us, and then found this weird giant cube thing that was roughly where it want to put us, even though it probably should be in another sector...and got confused, and just put us in the nearest truly empty boundary space, which happened to be on the other side. And since we were already moving in that direction...we crossed that boundary immediately just from inertia.
One of the players on my server got into his mind to create a giant cube arena for ship combat and testing. Really big. It takes up most of a sector. And in order to make sure that it wouldn't be damaged by contestants, he decided to attach it to our faction's home base with a long pole. The arena and our base are in two adjacent but still different sectors. Already, then, we've gone over the recommended build size and we've also built across sectors which I'm almost certain is not something that should be done. But, there we are. That's the setup, now the FUN.
We were going to fly out to the arenacube, show it to a new player and maybe have a quick match with some fighters. As we followed the pole, we crossed the sector boundary...and suddenly we were elsewhere. At first we were confused. After a while, we realized we were on the *other side* of the sector the arena was in, with the arena invisible, and rapidly be pushed into the next sector over. When we returned to the sector with our base in it, we ended up coming from the other side of it. After playing with this a bit, we determined that he had invented a short range jump gate via glitches and bugs. Now, in build mode that cube is still there, but we can't see or interact with it outside of build mode, and it moves us around.
Next this player had me sit on the pole in space right on the sector boundary, and he started building walls. I could not see them, but I was immediately forced several hundred meters straight up (relative) and every time I flew back down to the same spot, I was forced back up again. At this point we declared him grand space wizard and all logged off to sleep.
Upon examining the server logs, we were all being snapped to drastically different coordinates from where we started out upon entering the sector. Likely it saw that we crossed the boundary, tried to place us, and then found this weird giant cube thing that was roughly where it want to put us, even though it probably should be in another sector...and got confused, and just put us in the nearest truly empty boundary space, which happened to be on the other side. And since we were already moving in that direction...we crossed that boundary immediately just from inertia.
