Routing in Beta 3

Short path avaliable and preveiw , path taken missmatch

February 24, 2009 10:04 PM from

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I noticed in sins that route preveiw and the route taken are sometime not the same

my squad(of heavy cruisers) took the shortest route

but the preveiw said they would take a route that is needless longer but still the same hop count

i loaded a save and build a scout sent it so the starting location and then order it to the dest and it should the same path and took the shortest. Also the path back WAS the same, the short path was teken and the long path preveiwed

another time pirates took a long rout to there target

but i might have missed the bouty and had it on my head

and last the path preview(i don't know about the path taken) for a scout to a far planet (discovery) showed it going to an undiscovered planet then stoping there. regetfully i didn't think to screen cap.

i know this are most likely know bugs but it never hurts to have more data points.

also if there is a thread like this, i am sorry i couldn't find it.

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Reply #1 February 25, 2009 10:55 AM from

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It's not a bug. Number of jumps isn't as important to travel time as total distance; if you were to look at exactly how many seconds it'd take to travel the two routes, you'd see that the route it did take was clearly superior to the one you thought.

In the first case, the key is where you hit the grav well on that asteroid belt at the bottom; you enter it, and then turn and leave from almost the same spot, so very little in-well travel needed. If it'd taken the upper route, on the other hand, a fleet would have to fly through the entire well and around the wormhole, taking substantially longer. The fact that the phase lanes are slightly longer is irrelevant compared to the amount of time spent in-system.

Likewise, on the second example, the two paths are:

1> Go through an ice planet well (moderate time), turn on the corner of a well (short time), go through an asteroid well (fairly short time), hit target.

2> Go most of the way across the star's well (LONG time), go through a gas giant well (moderate to long), go through a wormhole (fairly short), hit target

Again, the path it actually took was the superior one, even if it looks at first glance to be the long way. So no, not a bug.

Reply #2 February 25, 2009 11:34 AM from

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Spatzimaus

Try reading what the guy said again. He is suggesting there is a bug in the preview of the route taken because it is not the actual route taken. Afterall what is the point of the preview if it is not correct. It sounds like a bug to me, regardless of it's severity.

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