Moving Space Station

[TCassels]

Evening,

I just recently attempted to create a space station (M) and as I was building out the initial layout I started to move away from my ship. I made it back to the ship and found out the station was moving away. The station doesn't keep moving however; It will move for a while and then stop for just about a 30sec then start moving again. I have tried restarting the game as I am in the single player sandbox.

Any ideas where I can start? I'm going to try a new universe and see if that changes anything.



Thanks,

Tim

 

[TCassels]

Wanted to post an update on something new I discovered.



I followed the station around for what seemed to be a long time and when it reached the sector that it is suppose to be in it stops moving. After going thru this process for a while I noticed that all of a sudden the sector changes and it starts to move again. The station is suppose to be in 8,6,3 and when the sectors change it goes to 8,7,3.

 

[bounding star]

No idea what\'s going on. That just seems bizarre

 

[AxNinjaX]

Hi! I\'ve experienced similar phenomena with shops; some tend to move about. If you observe planets, you\'ll notice that they orbit whilst remaining in their own sectors. I believe that the movement of the stations, shops, etc. is just an extension of this orbital mechanic. Any other ideas?

 

[Gasboy]

I think that might help.

 

[TCassels]

I went into my server.cfg and disabled the rotation and after I recreated the station everything seems to be working properly. I have to agree that it\'s probably something with the universal rotation. Dark matter, black hole, or something.

 

[DracoNB]

Sounds like you made the station right next to the sector change area, so when you back away from it it you enter a different sector and the rotation kicks in and makes it move.

 

[Zaflis]

And that can cause alot of issues if you dock ships so that they cross the sector border. Who knows, docked ships could even disappear.