ship strange routes

[trooper]

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...

[Q]

Minefields?

[dogscoff]

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*

[Captain Kwok]

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.

[Roanon]

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 ]

[oleg]

Originally posted by dogscoff:
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*

You can set a path by placing fake minefield tags at strategig points.