Elite: Dangerous PvE - Mobius

Apparently not everybody's sensor display is painting commander blips as hollow. This can cause some ugly friendly-fire incidents!

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthrea ... ost2605491

Heard of this a little while ago, guess its still around.

Haven't been exposed to it myself yet, but its one reason I tend to have the bandwidth meter up when I expect I could possibly encounter players (ctrl+b, i think)

It displays uploading bandwidth and downloading bandwidth, as soon as a player share instance with you this jumps from a couple of KB/s to a few Mb/s, and is as such functional as an early warning system since you would only see players if they where otherwise in sensor range (at most 7km, if I remember correct).

In Mobius this simply means time to say hi in local chat
It also helps to quickly diagnose broken wings/instances etc.

I had this happen the other day. I thought it was because of crap C rated sensors. I saw two Clippers attacking each other. I though it was strange, but one was wanted so I blew it away. Then suddenly the other blip was hollow, but it was definitely solid a few seconds before. Anyway, I apologized for sniping his kill. Lucky he didn't have a bounty as I'm not sure I would have noticed the CMDR. I've been paying more attention since that happened.

I just had one where hostiles weren't red when they fired on you.https://youtu.be/gPBwROysPGY

Wow, it's getting better and better!

I have same bug all the time - no hollow mark at all when I see other cmdrs.