ship strange routes
 

I sometimes wonder why a ship, when you order him to go to a near system, doesn't choose the shortest path, and sometimes makes very longer trips to go to your destination, althought there is no ennemy ship between it and your destination system...

Re: ship strange routes
 

Minefields?

Re: ship strange routes
 

And why the predicted movement lines will show one way around an obstacle but then the ship will take another.

And it frustrates me that a ship will sail straight past a friendly resupply depot even though it could change course and resupply en-route without using any extra movement. I suggested fixing that to MM several times but it never got patched. And I guess now it never will.

*sigh*

Re: ship strange routes
 

If you are using a mod like FQM, Fyron loves his damaging asteroids and so those will often cause your ship to take strange paths through a system. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

Re: ship strange routes
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">You can set a path by placing fake minefield tags at strategig points.

Re: ship strange routes
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">This is extremely unreliable- More than one or two minefield markers together cause the ship to stop dead and clear orders (AAGH!) and if a ship encounters just one marker on its own there's no way to guarantee which way round it will go, often causing delays and diVersions.

Re: ship strange routes
 

Any obstacles like minefields, enemy planets, damaging asteroids and I plot each step of the path manually. Even if the path is shown to be a certain good one, this does not guarantee that the AI (=Artificial Stupidity) will not choose another weird path at actual turn execution.

Pathing, also in combat as mentioned in another thread, has been programmed really, really bad.

[ May 12, 2004, 12:14: Message edited by: Roanon ]