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iay@there: Musings on a Virtual World
Having seen pixiemoto’s spaceship recently, I couldn’t resist going to Tyr and seeing what Tophe’s new Green Glow Industrial Columns looked like in the darkness. I couldn’t find any already in use, so I rented a couple from auctions and threw them up in a temporary portazone near the Boneyard. The simple answer is: they are awesome.
The columns appear solid (you can’t walk through them) but that doesn’t stop you from using the “hoverpack trick” to get inside them, as the picture shows. The hoverpack trick just involves hoverpacking up close to an object, facing it, then jumping off. There’s collision detection logic doesn’t seem to work during the dismount animation, and the result is that you can use this trick to get through walls or even jump inside an apparently solid object.