Auto Plot course in sector space fails

[F'lar]

I'm sure others have run across this before as it's been a bug for quite a while. You come out into sector space, plot a course on the map and your ship goes in a straight line @ 50% speed. Re-plotting doesn't help, re-logging doesn't help.

The work-around I have found is changing the sector instance you're in. Yes, you pop up at Starbase 234, but Auto Plot works again.

I haven't nailed down the cause, but it seems to happen to me after beaming up from Station K-7. Your boff doesn't offer you a choice to enter sector space so you have to click the galaxy symbol upper left of the mini-map. Whether that has something to do with it, I don't know, but I have had it happen several times after beaming up from K-7.

Just a heads up!

[Mightylink]

My transwarp menu has also been failing a lot since the last patch, I will click transwarp to a location and nothing happens but then my whole transwarp menu goes onto cooldown and I can't try again...

[Running-Target]

Originally posted by F'lar:

I'm sure others have run across this before as it's been a bug for quite a while. You come out into sector space, plot a course on the map and your ship goes in a straight line @ 50% speed.

Yeah i think everyone gets that problem every once in awhile. Sometimes letting it fly a bit and then replotting does work. Or just manually fly to your destination.

[MentalRaptors]

Randomly happens to me too from time to time, both plotting and transwarp. I don't expect any patching soon, since it's not really a gamebreaking bug (which probably wouldn't get patched either but ah well).

[Eggy]

I find that manually changing direction and traveling a short distance is sufficient. After that it usually works normally.

[Sandormen]

This spectacular bug might be the one that irks me the most. It happens way to often. I am supposed to travel from say Qo'nos to New Romulus. In my thirst for coffee, I routinely click on New Romulus, and leave without actually noticing in what direction the ship goes. ...-Coming back just to see it has reached the border of Alpha quadrant. *rolleyes*