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Any news on an autopilot?
For a few months now, I've been experimenting with using the push effect method for what I refer to as auto-drive, rather than autopilot. I pretty much point a ship in a direction and let the push effect take over. Naturally, this is limited to travelling in one direction, unless you hit something. Great for missiles though. Sadly, falling out of the ship even in gravity or aligned tends to happen.
So far, I have refined my method in my ships which is fun for the time that I'm in the ship, but when I send a ship off on its own it stops just outside the range of the sector that a player occupies.
I understand there is a counter in the config file of a server that you can configure activity to cease for sectors. I have yet to try increasing this to see if it would make a difference and was wondering if I'm wasting my time here.
I would like for the ship to continue on it's voyage without a pilot into deep space. I have built in sensors that stop the push effect on collision, but since the ship stops when nobody is looking anyway, it's rather redundant.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to make this work?
I will give config file a try when I get a minute. Tonight maybe. Should be interesting.
I could post my ship, logic and experimental designs here, but I'm not sure where I should post these. My ships are nothing fancy. Mainly function over aesthetics.
For a few months now, I've been experimenting with using the push effect method for what I refer to as auto-drive, rather than autopilot. I pretty much point a ship in a direction and let the push effect take over. Naturally, this is limited to travelling in one direction, unless you hit something. Great for missiles though. Sadly, falling out of the ship even in gravity or aligned tends to happen.
So far, I have refined my method in my ships which is fun for the time that I'm in the ship, but when I send a ship off on its own it stops just outside the range of the sector that a player occupies.
I understand there is a counter in the config file of a server that you can configure activity to cease for sectors. I have yet to try increasing this to see if it would make a difference and was wondering if I'm wasting my time here.
I would like for the ship to continue on it's voyage without a pilot into deep space. I have built in sensors that stop the push effect on collision, but since the ship stops when nobody is looking anyway, it's rather redundant.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to make this work?
I will give config file a try when I get a minute. Tonight maybe. Should be interesting.
I could post my ship, logic and experimental designs here, but I'm not sure where I should post these. My ships are nothing fancy. Mainly function over aesthetics.
