Fleet: IDLE stops asteroids dead

[MacThule]

Try it.

Not sure if it works unless you have a fleet around, but if you have a fleet moving around in a sector and an asteroid is spinning or drifting, ordering your fleet to idle stops the 'roid as if it had thrusters. Guess even the rocks want to be in our fleets!

 

[Sachys]

Try it.

Not sure if it works unless you have a fleet around, but if you have a fleet moving around in a sector and an asteroid is spinning or drifting, ordering your fleet to idle stops the 'roid as if it had thrusters. Guess even the rocks want to be in our fleets!

was this on a server where unfactioned ships can be fleeted?

 

[MacThule]

This was in SP. Vanilla. Asteroids cannot be fleeted though. I've done it several times now.

 

[nogg]

if this is a bug, its a very useful one... I think I will use this

 

[Batavium]

was this on a server where unfactioned ships can be fleeted?

Just to clarify since Sachys asks if in your server config.cfg unfactioned fleets are set to enabled.

ONLY_ALLOW_FACTION_SHIPS_ADDED_TO_FLEET = false //only allows faction ships to be added to fleet

In my downloaded game this is default false. "horrible if a server owner hits create server without turning this to true"

This was in SP. Vanilla. Asteroids cannot be fleeted though. I've done it several times now.

You answer that you can not faction asteroids. But is this with the above setting on false or true? To hunt down the bug we need to know if it is maybe a side effect of that setting.

Your answer doesn't answer his question directly and that may lead to assumption. This is often a problem and one i seen many times on StarMade dock. Sometimes things get lost in translation.

Interesting bug though!

 

[Sachys]

This was in SP. Vanilla. Asteroids cannot be fleeted though. I've done it several times now.

Maybe not, but im thinking that perhaps while mining, the roid is somehow considered as part of a fleet by the game for some reason (collisions for instance), and when you hit idle. its affecting the roid too - hence asking about unfactioned fleets.
of course, this is only guesswork - the kind that happens late at night with wine, or the morning after.

 

[nightrune]

If you can repro please make a bug report!