[TI] Lock Bug?

EDIT:
So, i am collecting bonus boxes, Cloaked. My pet is collecting bonus boxes like half map away from me.
A guy comes, and as soon as he locks my pet (which is like half map away from me), i can see a Red Dot on minimap ( he has somehow a lock on me, but i am half map away from him).

After he kills my pet (that is half map away from me) he somehow has a Lock on me.

Why?

 

Well, from what I know of this, the PET when attacked, starts running to you for protection and if out of range cannot be destroyed. As you say you are BOXING/cloaked, I can assume you are out there with no red dots around you. If he has his map zoomed out he can find your ship without actually being seen on your map (unless you have also zoomed out, I don't recommend this practice) and then start the attack.

You may be experiencing LAG and thus the screen is not updating and causing you to think he is farther away than he actually is (the best way to test for LAG is to kill a NPC and see how quickly the cargo box appears, immediately no lag more time = more lag) if experiencing LAG, suggest logging out clearing Browser History, Flash Cache, Reset Computer and Router log back into D O and run my test again.

 

Okay well I have attempted to attack PETS that the attack was cancelled as the OWNER was CLOAKED and the PET was out of range (or at least this is what I was told was the reason for the attack to be cancelled. I also KNOW you can zoom your screen seeing more or less of the map as you desire to play.

And LAG is every ones main issue and can explain some of what is being seen.

One thing I did not hit on is the person may be using a Auto-Lock program, but I did not want to think the player was a cheater.

 

just because you cant see that player don't mean they cant see u i know a few players with big screens then can see a hell of alot more of the map then me

 

OK i did some testing, and apparently if you kill a PET , then you can see where the owner of the PET is on mini map. You can see the owner for like 5 sec, than the red dot on mini map disappears. But you don't have lock of the owner of the PET , if you kill his pet...
Weird game mechanic but whatever.
Admins can close this thread.

 

Initially, this was entered, so that if somebody killed your pet, you could go and find them, to engage the fight.
Of course, most people just shoot pets, so they can find the cloacked owner, and shoot them.
(Since they mostly are easy to kill bots)

 

Closed as requested.

Have a nice day
Astraea