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Inertia Dampener Bug


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The brake thrust provided by inertia dampeners is not included in brake thrust calculations ... for the AI. They work perfectly fine when there is a player controlling the ship.

 

BUT. It appears that the speed of AI ships set to follow you is determined by the ship's brake thrust. As such, ships with bad brake thrust follow you unbelievably slowly.

 

Said follow AI appears to only use thrusters to steer. Given a ship with good gyro arrays and inertia dampeners, it refused to turn, instead using the sole thruster I used for decoration to try and move laterally.

 

As an experiment, I took said ship and told it to follow (linearly to prevent said issue). The ship followed at a measly 50 m/s. (had a mix of thrusters and inertia dampeners just in case i was right).

I then replaced all the inertia dampeners with thrusters. Coincidentally, the brake thrust statistic more than halved. The ship followed at ~150 m/s.

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