Kadatherion wrote: ↑Thu, 23. May 19, 13:57Except it's not what (at least often) happens. Order a far away ship to follow YOU. It will fly to where you were at the moment you issued the order. If you then fly somewhere else, it will not lag behind a few seconds: it will fly to those coordinates completely ignoring any recalculation until it gets there. Only then, if it doesn't find you, it will look where you are now and update the coordinates. This means they can lag behind entire *minutes*, as by when the ship arrives you could be in the opposite corner of the sector. The follow command/task - at least when you are the target - doesn't get slow updates while en route: it gets no updates at all.
I stumbled into a TODO around this in 08.dat, but can't find it now. I want to think there's some aspect of the flight system that isn't done yet. *shrug* Search 08 for TODO. It's enlightening.
Can't really tell what's going on inside that file without knowing the whole thing (also, it's my first time inside an X .dat file), however I can say: good luck Owen.
