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Droidster
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2016-02-22 17:47:28 UTC
A new player complained about the tendency of ships to overshoot their target when they do an approach.

In many cases this is desired behavior because you want to get to the target as fast as possible.

Nevertheless, in some circumstances you do not want to overshoot.

The main option in those cases is to orbit.

However, another idea might be to support proportional navigation which would allow a "Follow" behavior. With this kind of ability the player could approach an object without overshooting it, albeit at a slower velocity.
Estella Osoka
Cranky Bitches Who PMS
#2 - 2016-02-22 18:19:03 UTC
Ships don't stop on a dime. There is already the option to keep target at range or to orbit at a specific range. You friend just needs to learn how to manually pilot and stop relying on easy mode navigation.
elitatwo
Zansha Expansion
#3 - 2016-02-22 18:22:10 UTC
Droidster wrote:
A new player complained about the tendency of ships to overshoot their target when they do an approach..


And you know whoms fault that is? Isac Newton. If dat dude didn't come up with silly idea, we would still live on a disk.

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SurrenderMonkey
State Protectorate
Caldari State
#4 - 2016-02-22 18:38:39 UTC  |  Edited by: SurrenderMonkey
elitatwo wrote:
Droidster wrote:
A new player complained about the tendency of ships to overshoot their target when they do an approach..


And you know whoms fault that is? Isac Newton. If dat dude didn't come up with silly idea, we would still live on a disk.



To be fair, newblet's complaint is more long the lines of, "Why isn't the ship's navigational computer smart enough to automate an approach to a stationary object at a velocity that won't overshoot?"

Don't really have strong feelings about the merit of it either way (well, mostly opposed as there are many circumstances in which I want that overshoot), but addressing it as if it were about inertia is a mischaracterization.

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Celthric Kanerian
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#5 - 2016-02-22 19:57:51 UTC
Droidster... The original post you linked is still open. Why didn't you just post this there instead of making a completely new thread?

Kind of silly I think.
Bumblefck
Kerensky Initiatives
#6 - 2016-02-22 20:06:37 UTC
Celthric Kanerian wrote:
Droidster... The original post you linked is still open. Why didn't you just post this there instead of making a completely new thread?

Kind of silly I think.



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ISD Dorrim Barstorlode
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#7 - 2016-02-23 20:19:33 UTC
Closed for trolling.

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