[#3996] Ship slows down and loses place when flying with a larger ship after opening and closing the map

[sterlingkerman]

Howdy,

I have noticed that when I am in formation with a capital ship (AKA flying close enough to get moved along with it), that if I open the map and close it, my ship will suddenly slow down and fall behind. This can be really annoying when I am just having myself in formation with an ally or something and I decide to spend some time managing my Empire, only to close the map and then have to speed back up and get back into place. This is particularly annoying on the Boron Highway mission.

Only thing I can think of is that for some reason the process of closing the map causes the ship to decelerate, but I don't why it would do that. Moreover, when I am just on my own (not following a larger ship) and close the map, the ship doesn't change speed at all, so it does seem to be related to the system/mechanic that has you flying with larger ships.

Is there a setting that may resolve this? Or is this a known issue? >>> "Maintain Speed in Menus" is already on.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8xf0yacies
NOTE: I am not touching my speed at all during the video, except to catch back up with the large ship about halfway through the video.

Version and language (e.g. 7.10 Hotfix 1, English, etc.).
- 7.60 Public Release, English

Whether or not your game is modified using any third party scripts or mods (see note below).
- Happens in a completely vanilla game, or heavily modded; and has been happening since I started playing again over a month ago. I decided to make a report now as the issue is growing more annoying each time it happens.

The game start you originally selected for the game in which the problem occurred.
- N/a, happens regardless of game start.

Exact nature of the problem, where and when it occurs and what you were doing at the time.
- Opening and closing the map will cause my ship to slow down or reverse when following a capital ship. If I am not following a capital ship and open/close the map, nothing will happen, so I am confident the issue is with the system that keeps smaller ships in line with larger ones. Also, the ship will stay in place while the map is open, it's only when I close the map that the issue happens.

Any possibly relevant changes you have made to your game, system, or software before the issue occurred.
- I have made extensive changes to my keyboard controls, having completely blanked them out and them manually inputted my own preferences. However, as far as I can tell there isn't any overlap that would be causing the map keys to cause the ship to slow down. S and CTRL-S are being used to slow and stop the ship, while M is used to open and close the map.

Where appropriate, additional symptoms, error messages, links to saves *, screenshots and crash dump files (see this Wiki entry).
- Video of the issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8xf0yacies

Your system specifications in the form of a DxDiag report and vulkaninfo (see this Wiki entry).**
- https://sharetext.io/3defcf38

[sterlingkerman]

I want to amend this by stating that opening and closing any menu appears to have the same affect.

I was doing an escort mission for a freighter and needed to pause the game for a second via opening the Options Menu, but upon closing the Options Menu I noticed my ship jerk backwards as usual with this issue, so now I know it isn't just the map causing this problem.

[sterlingkerman]

I wanted to bump this by saying that the issue still appears to be present in the new 9.0 version of the game.