Drone mining broken

[Zedrackis]

I had a working mining fleet prior to the latest release. But now they just sit in space doing nothing. I double checked all the connections between the cannons, computer, core, and cargo. Remade the fleet. Checked the AI for active and set to fleet. The drones recall to the carrier just fine, but they wont mine.

 

[SmilingDemon]

i will check again in the evening.
it was still working on one of the latest dev builds ... so yeah .. no idea

 

[Zedrackis]

I ended up deleting everything from my starmade folder except my blueprints, downloading a copy of the latest build from the archive and installing it. That fixed my problem. Acrhive link: http://files.star-made.org/build/starmade-build_20160619_234126.zip

 

[Zedrackis]

UPDATE:

This has happened several times now, reinstalling the game seems to the only fix when it happens.

 

[spunkiethefirst]

With the new asteroid sizes the mining ai will need a more adaptive approach as the collision avoidance will activate before it can fire. So those ships that were just on the edge of functioning with the older smaller asteroids will not function now.

Next time it happens try mining away the currently targeted asteroid and see if the mining fleet will eventually fire. Sometimes other objects being to close, either ships or asteroids, can also trigger collision avoidance dancing.

 

[Zedrackis]

It has nothing to do with collision avoidance. At least that is after see my drones actually have collision avoidance problems when to asteroids spawned with in meters of each other I determined this is another matter. No they refuse to mine, they simply refuse to mine. They still do everything else they can do in terms of fleet orders. I have tried gently nudging them, Ive tried smacking them with the board flat side of my carrier. Ive tried clearing cache, reconnecting to the server, restarting the client. Reinstalling the client seems to be the only fix when they break, I assume there is something being stored on the client the 'clear cache' tool isn't clearing, just not sure what it is.

 

[spunkiethefirst]

I think I have witnessed what you are talking about. Instead of the usual wiggle back and forth with collision avoidance the ships will sit still instead.

 

[SmilingDemon]

Maybe this T1564 Mining drones stop working after one mined asteroid

at least that is how i could reproduce it lately