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There is actually a bug that you can exploit to improve pathfinding.  Very rapidly give move orders to the affected unit, and it will actually "glide" past the obstruction without turning around and coming to a complete stop.  If you start doing this right away, it basically won't slow down at all and will just skirt past the obstruction.  This is commonly known as the click-spam exploit, and it would be nice if units always acted this way.

"Capt'n, dere be an asteroid ahead!  Whadda we do?"

"No problem, mate.  We'll just bump into it.  I reckon that will stop us.  Then we'll turn the ship and go around it."

Its being dealt with along with some other ship movement improvements and optimizations (it eats up a lot of CPU time).

You misunderstood me. The new code will be faster and smarter than the old code which is slow and gives stupid behavior in certain circumstances. Win - win.

I'll admit, I didn't think I'd ever see the day that this would be addressed without Sins 2. Very good news.

Further, I advise that the Devs add custom map sharing to Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion.

Being "looked into" is not the same as a confirmed feature.  The whole point of what GaoFan is doing is to constantly remind the devs that this remains a high priority item so it doesn't end up being a forgotten item at the bottom of the list.

Yay! 

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "arcing" turns but the new code means ships don't move forward into the enemy firing squad line of death while attempting to move away in the opposite direction. There are other improvements as well.

What algorithm are you using now? The box-infront-of-ship method? Or have you guys moved to A* already?

Can you add more function than the basic seek and flee, instead can you add other functions like pursuit (I don't mind have to pay research money during game to get this function) or even wander or stuff like that.

This just happened to me. I built a scout (1) at 17 seconds into the game and order it to jump to another gravity well to explore. One of the scouts that was spawned with Quick Start (2) is ordered to jump to that gravity well too. At 1 minute into the game, (2) starts phase jumping, and (1) arrives at the same edge. But due to idiotic maneuvering, (1) apparently tries to jump from exactly the same location (2) is jumping from. But (1) can't move into the same location as (2). Eventually (1) figures out it has to turn clockwise in order to get into position to phase jump. But that doesn't work either, and after a 180~ degree turn in that direction, (1) then turns back counterclockwise in an attempt to jump out. That attempt fails as well, it turns 270 degrees counterclockwise before stopping and trying (and failing) to jump out. It turns back clockwise, figures out that it can't phase jump from there, and so it then turns 360 degrees counterclockwise before finally arriving into position to phase jump out.

Finally, at 2:01 into the game, the first scout I built starts phase jumping.

This is very, very bad.

Here is the replay. The scout to keep an eye on is the first scout that comes out of the frigate factory.

http://www.mediafire.com/?08wn6t3a5se5a9s

similar to GoaFan's the version I have that stacks on Sins of the Fallen can technically be loaded as a single mod without activating the rest of my mods features.

http://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/388917/page/29

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That was probably a reply meant for this thread:

http://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/413386