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Invisible ghost avatar in Hahne

ArchTx Edo
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Join date: 13 Feb 2005
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01-15-2009 08:26
There is a green dot on the mini-map indicating an avatar in Hahne 243, 187, 15. It is just below the water surface according to the hieght indicators in the mini-map as you move up and down.

But its invisible. I assume its a ghost of some sort as its been there for days. But this is the first invisible ghost that I have seen.

It is visible on the large map also.

I can't think of any other explanation for this, can you?
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MortVent Charron
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01-15-2009 08:30
happens sometimes when folks use the hide tools... the body is animated to be like 200meters from where the camera is.

They can ghost as well, and some bot farms are using them now too.. since the bots are not as visible (can set the distance on some as to how far away the body is hidden)
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Meade Paravane
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01-15-2009 08:56
I've seen this too and think it's a semi-recent bug in the sim software..
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Meade Paravane
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01-15-2009 08:58
I think anybody over 1k height (or some largish number) will now always show up with a 'below you' icon on the minimap..
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Schobbejack Swindlehurst
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01-15-2009 09:52
would appear the av got stuck while crossing a region border, the region sends your viewer a packet saying the av is moving in a certain direction, your viewer then interpolates the avatars movement making it dissapear from view, sometimes you can see them fly away if you look quick enough
since the avatar is not actually there and not sending the region any updates, it will stay on the minimap where it is, same case for scanners
same way you sometimes keep flying a while when you're experiencing lag
Zim Gunsberg
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Join date: 16 May 2008
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01-15-2009 15:26
I've seen this happen before, just recently. Over the holidays, I'd catch a glimpse of an avi walking by everytime I TP'd in to one of my shops. I want to emphasize "every" here. It was like watching an instant replay. This went on for about a week.

The Sim border is right outside the back door of the store so I thought nothing of it the first time they walked through my wall into the next shop, but after the 2nd day I began to wonder what was up. I also noticed a stationary green blip in what should have been a wall at the sim border and a name kept appearing on my avi scanner. Very interesting. With all the weirdness that goes on when crossing a sim border I have to wonder if I've ever been someone else's "Ghost".
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01-15-2009 20:10
From: Meade Paravane
I think anybody over 1k height (or some largish number) will now always show up with a 'below you' icon on the minimap..


I think this might be the case. I used to see what seemed like 20 green dots stacked on the map and when i looked at the minimap the arrow showed they were below me but I couldn't alt-cam to see them under the water. I flew way up in the sky and finally found them though.