Just testing server code then ... ... set a CA or SC to overfly earth at maxwarp, as soon as you touch the planet call in lots of practice robots. They all tractor you, nailing you to the ether. (a) the robots fire at where you will be assuming you would do maxwarp without being tractored. Yeah, that's sorta expected, given their lack of logic. (b) the cumulative effect of all those tractors is to reduce your forward motion to almost zero, despite the fact that they are pulling from all around you. If the vectors were additive, I would expect to keep moving. (c) when you die, you are released from tractor, springing forward as you explode. Surprised me. Where have I been these last five years to miss such an odd effect? ;-) -- James Cameron mailto:quozl at us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/