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Offline Dmdunn

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Transport ship turning
« on: February 15, 2010, 05:45:42 pm »
If I send a Transport ship somewhere close by, and quickly switch the destination to go a little to the side and behind it, it won't turn but
will move backwards instead.
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Offline keith.lamothe

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Re: Transport ship turning
« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2010, 05:49:28 pm »
If you're referring to a really small change in position, that's just how it's programmed to handle those.  Call them maneuvering jets or whatever ;)
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Re: Transport ship turning
« Reply #2 on: February 15, 2010, 08:38:26 pm »
Out of curiosity, what's the reason for them not turning if you click close to them? It's come up multiple times before as a 'bug' and looks weird in practice, so I'm wondering if they can't just turn like expected.
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Re: Transport ship turning
« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2010, 01:17:57 pm »
I'm not sure... but maybe it's because it would take it 5 seconds to turn around but it can go there in 1 second using maneuvering engines?
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Re: Transport ship turning
« Reply #4 on: February 17, 2010, 02:48:08 pm »
That, and the fact that we can't accurately calculate angles between points below a certain distance threshold.  In alpha versions, this let to ships flipping around like crazy at short distances.  This avoids that, and fits with spacecraft anyway.
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