Moving thru damaging warppoints?

dumbluck · #1 April 14th, 2002, 06:57 AM

How do I force a ship to go through a damaging warppoint in a sim-move game? I gave it the order to warp thru it, but it just danced around and around it instead.

(v1.49 + P&Nv2.5)

Fyron · #2 April 14th, 2002, 07:04 AM

Try telling the ship to move directly onto the warp point, and then warp through it. Personally, I have never had problems getting ships to fly through damaging warp points. My captains are heedless of danger.

Actually, that's probably because I never have damaging warp points in long paths. The only time I move ships through them is when I am scouting an area, so the ship is given orders to warp through the warp point, instead of moving to a location on the other side of it.

capnq · #3 April 14th, 2002, 08:46 PM

The times I've seen a ship "dancing" around a warp point, it was because there was a hostile ship blocking it, and the moving ship didn't have orders to attack.

Is the sector that the damaging warp point leads to marked as Avoid? That the only other possibility that comes to mind.

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DavidG · #4 April 15th, 2002, 12:43 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Actually, that's probably because I never have damaging warp points in long paths.

I recently mistakenly had a damaged warp point on a long path and only noticed it when the ship sailed merely through it got damaged. :-(

dumbluck · #5 April 15th, 2002, 08:23 AM

CapnQ: The warppoint is unoccupied, and I have not marked anything as "to be avoided".

Suicide Junkie · #6 April 15th, 2002, 02:38 PM

I believe only one side of the warppoints are damaging.
SO, if your ship comes at it from the blind side, they will merrily fly through and get torn to shreds as they exit.
Any ships that are trying to pass through from the opposite side, see it just like a damaging storm, and in trying to go around, they end up doing the warppoint dance.