Satellites not being placed as instructed?

[sekkhoasmadi]

I've had a suspicion while playing the last couple days that my AI controlled scout ship has been misplacing some satellites. I'll queue up a stack of 10 satellite placements right next to stations and warp gates, and when I come back some of them will have been placed waaay far away (outside of the range of the satellite). I know the satellite drifts a small amount when they get placed based on the speed of the ship, but not by the amounts that I'm seeing on the map.

I even started taking notes of which side and how far away I instructed the AI to place them, and several are waaay off. Any ideas as to why the AI ship is placing them so far away?

[LameFox]

It probably is the drift, sometimes it's anything but 'slight'. Try dragging a short 'fly here' command into the order queue in front of each one and see if it stops. They slow down for that more reliably for whatever reason.

[sekkhoasmadi]

It probably is the drift, sometimes it's anything but 'slight'. Try dragging a short 'fly here' command into the order queue in front of each one and see if it stops. They slow down for that more reliably for whatever reason.

That's a genius move, great idea thanks for that!

[sekkhoasmadi]

Also - for anyone reading this in the FuTuRe... standing on the ship with your pilot in control seems to work smoother as well. They behave better when properly... monitored.