Ore mines and jumpgates.Minor bugs in 1.4 ?

[TTD]

Been playing most of today and explored quite a good part of the southern and south eastern regions.

At one stage I thought I would dock my Enhanced Pericles at an Ore Mine somewhere south east,can't remember where and forgot to write it down.

The point is that the two ore mines only had dissembodied docking clamps beneath the 'roid,whereas the silicon mine in that sector was complete.

Is this a bug? Not noticed it in north western regions under ver 1.3

Otherwise only one other problem:

Using SETA going through jumpsgates was ok with X3R,but in TC ver 1.4,maybe earlier versions,but not noticed, if I am using SETA my ship just ends up the other side of the gate without jumping. I then have to turn round and enter without SETA.

These are just minor issues,but the gate problem is a little annoying.

[Legionnaire]

Not sure about the mines, but going through a jumpgate while running seta and being on the other side of the gate accelerating away is a known phenomenom, IIRC its caused by approaching at high seta, and the system not realising you hit the jump horizon, as one seta 'tick' places you one side and the next places you on the otherside. It only seems to happen with fast ships on max seta on slightly slower processors, i get it every so often, so for various reasons have dropped back down to 6x seta. You may notice however that it doesnt do it if the autopillock is flying you via gates.

Legionnaire

[TTD]

Thanks for that. I guessed it might be something to do position recognition.
Maxed out Enhanced Pericles at 1000 SETA
So too fast to be spotted in time.
Still annoying if you're on the run with low shields. Still only got the original 3 cannons which don't seem to do much damage to other ships.Just as well be a pea-shooter.
Must downgrade to PACs soon.

[Terre]

Eng. DVD v1.4 (no scripts or mods)

You are right - those docking clamps do not look healthy.

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  Ore mine docking clamps (Click image to view at full size)

[TTD]

So is this a 1.4 problem?

Is it going to be sorted it the next patch?

As I said above,it is a minor bug,if not amusing,but it is not not sort of thing that I can use to show off the game to a potential convert.

But you guys at Egosoft and o DEVNET have done wonders,so you deserve you break over Xmas and new year. Well done!