jump gate problem

[teMELEEn]

Hey guys,
im having strange problem with jump gates. Many times my cap ships go right through without jumping :/

[Mylo-s]

which gate(s)?

There is a bug with cap ship pathing in Serpentine Haze (FO Teladi Space) IF player is docked to the cap ship and I believe if the player is in the zone.

Otherwise, it should work.

Could you please post more details (eg which gates, are you present in the zone, any mods etc)?

[teMELEEn]

its a gate from teladi outpost (fields of opp I think) back to exhaustless mines. So basically I have to be not docked to the ship + be outside the zone with jump gate when the ships are jumping?

[teMELEEn]

anyway I tried to send my fleet to the gate in teladi space, i went through first. Now when i order the ships to fly to exhaustless mines they just sit in teladi space doing nothing (i tried to send them into some other zone in there but no success as well :/)

[Daddy Shark]

That one jumpgate seems to really screw with the autopilot. I don't know what they were thinking putting so much solid rock so close to that gate. Basically you HAVE to be out of the zone for your ships to make it out of that gate and back to Alibion.

[teMELEEn]

Originally posted by JKflipflop:

That one jumpgate seems to really screw with the autopilot. I don't know what they were thinking putting so much solid rock so close to that gate. Basically you HAVE to be out of the zone for your ships to make it out of that gate and back to Alibion.

Yeah thats what I tried, but even then nothing happened. I tried going to exhaustless mines and then set the fleet to go to my location. They just fly right through gate again without jumping. Other times they just sit there near gate doing nothing.

I have to test it out a bit more tough. What exact procedure youd recommend?

[Daddy Shark]

It sounds like you have some issues going on then, I'm not really sure. Load your game up, and then make a new save in a save slot. Then try upgrading to the beta patch and see if that helps. I say to backup your save in a new slot because once you save with the new version, you can't go backwards. i.e., you can't load a 3.6 savegame into the version 3.53 game.

[teMELEEn]

hmm beta patch, sounds like more trouble than fun :D ill see what I can do, Ill try to reload a bit older save and test this out.

[Daddy Shark]

Originally posted by teMELEEn:

hmm beta patch, sounds like more trouble than fun :D ill see what I can do, Ill try to reload a bit older save and test this out.

I've had good luck, but as always YMMV when it comes to betas. I seem to get smoother framerates in the beta. The B1 patch had a bug where all the capships couldn't use their boosters. The new B2 patch fixed it.

[teMELEEn]

Are you using any mods?

[Mylo-s]

How did you set (order) your fleet to go to your location?
Are you using any hierarchy in your ship organisation?
Do they have any other orders in their "trip" submenu?
When you go to your property menu (enter-> 2 -> 2) and you select your ship, what is the displayed command in the upper left corner? Wait, None, Follow Skunk?
Have you tried removing them and then adding them to your squad?

This is the behaviour:
https://youtu.be/MtltY-dBWMQ?t=1156

And the proof of normal pathing when player is out of the zone:
https://youtu.be/oCzrzU_5L2E?t=954

[teMELEEn]

How did you set (order) your fleet to go to your location?
- i tried different things, mainly fly to zone, also going there and issuing follow me or fly to my location

Are you using any hierarchy in your ship organisation?
- not really, all is put to skunk. I tried with some different setups (like all ships outside my squad or putting some ships to be in control of another)

Do they have any other orders in their "trip" submenu?
- if you mean fly to command then yes, theres like 5 other commands to give

When you go to your property menu (enter-> 2 -> 2) and you select your ship, what is the displayed command in the upper left corner? Wait, None, Follow Skunk?
- I cant check right now for sure, but I think it displays any command I gave. So If i set command fly to zone, these info pannels show "flo to..." command being under way

Have you tried removing them and then adding them to your squad?
- yes

regarding the video - that is exactly my problem. Plus sometimes the ships get stuck and dont make the loop even in slow speed. Ill reload some saves later and test it. Its super annoying... i would rather not have that asteroid :D

[teMELEEn]

So I tested this:

- went into some empty space area in teladi space (so outside any zone)
- took out all ships from my squad so they are all individual
- set command fly to zone -> gemstone manufacturer

Every single ship shows fly to gemstone manufacturer command. The ships fly through the gate without jumping as usual :/ I suspect its the boosting problem maybe? The only difference I can see between first unsuccessful flythrough is that its in boost and the other one with super slow turn looks like normal speed.

[teMELEEn]

either that or the ships must go through the other side from the station...