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New Players => The Academy => Topic started by: juv95hrn on March 29, 2013, 04:55:34 PM

Title: Survey ship keeps adding new plotted moves...
Post by: juv95hrn on March 29, 2013, 04:55:34 PM

My first ship is about to make its first survey:

Dachshound class Deep Space Survey Ship    2150 tons     40 Crew     267 BP      TCS 43  TH 50  EM 0
1162 km/s     Armour 1-14     Shields 0-0     Sensors 1/1/0/2     Damage Control 1     PPV 0
Maintenance Capacity 78 MSP
Spare Berths 2    

50 EP Commercial Nuclear Thermal Engine (1)    Power 50    Fuel Use 7.    59%    Armour 0    Exp 4%
Fuel Capacity 50,000 Litres    Range 55.    1 billion km   (548 days at full power)

Geological Survey Sensors (2)   2 Survey Points

This ship is classed as a commercial vessel for maintenance purposes


It is deployed at Earth and I give it special order from the Task Group menu to "survey nearest moon" "survey nearest body" etc.     

As soon as I advance time the ship allocates itself new plotted targets for every click, further and further away.     Cruithne, Phaethon, etc.     I don't think I have surveyed the moon after 5 secs of travelling there.     So why does the ship add new locations and won't go to the moon and survey it?

Thanks.   

EDIT:

Same behaviour if I give regular order to survey Luna.   
The ship is marked as "refitting" but fuel is 100% and supplies are full. 


It seems to have to do with a second ship being built dedicated to the same TG as the first ship.  When I build the second ship into a new and separate TG the first ship took off without changing orders.  Horribly unintuitive for a new player tbh.

Title: Re: Survey ship keeps adding new plotted moves...
Post by: Hawkeye on March 29, 2013, 11:41:35 PM

Hm, the TG with your survey ship shouldn´t move at all, if there is a ship building task assinged to that TG. You should actually get a message, something about "TG could not execute its orders because a ship building task ..." something along that line.

The rational is:
Your half finished ship is already part of the TG the construction is assigned to and it would be a wee bit difficult to move that half build ship with the finished ships around _and_ keep construcion going :)

This is, why you have all ship building assigned to your shipyard TG per default and only assign the finished ship to the TG you actually want them in.