Altered ship behaviour in 20190704 nightly
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Altered ship behaviour in 20190704 nightly
I've just built the new 20190704 nightly from source. I loaded my latest savegame from the 20190606 version. Now all my fishing boats are whining about having lost their way, although they seem to do just fine. However, they're now anchoring at other tiles than they used to:
Ships won't dock nicely alongside the harbour anymore. This looks plain weird:
The Cadiz and the Nieuwpoort have arrived straight from the depot. Rather than turn 90 degrees immediately after coming out of the depot, they now go one tile out, and then approach the dock at 45 degrees.
Re: Altered ship behaviour in 20190704 nightly
Almost certainly relates to PR #7380 Multi-tile docks.
Are the boats perpetually lost, or do they just report being lost despite finding their way just fine? Or was being lost just a one-time event after loading?
It's expected that ships end up docking slightly differently with the change.
Are the boats perpetually lost, or do they just report being lost despite finding their way just fine? Or was being lost just a one-time event after loading?
It's expected that ships end up docking slightly differently with the change.
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the docking behaviour change is intended, now all tiles next to a dock are available for docking, instead of just one.
as for the "being lost" issue, my first thought would be an issue with the path cache. it would really help to know if this is a one-time issue on loading or if it happens repeatedly
as for the "being lost" issue, my first thought would be an issue with the path cache. it would really help to know if this is a one-time issue on loading or if it happens repeatedly
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I get very upset when I see ships dock this way. I'm thinking that the captain must be drunk
I started a new game, and now the fishing boats are okay. I guess it's the path cache as you're saying.Eddi wrote: as for the "being lost" issue, my first thought would be an issue with the path cache. it would really help to know if this is a one-time issue on loading or if it happens repeatedly
Re: Altered ship behaviour in 20190704 nightly
I hacked the station catchment highlight code a bit to also show the docking tiles in red.
The regular dock is not changed from original, but I think the pathing to the docking tile may be different.
Water industry station docks cover the entire industry, but most of the tiles may be impassable to ships so even though they are technically "docking tiles" they aren't usable. But ships will be able to dock in more places around oil rigs and other water industries now.
The regular dock is not changed from original, but I think the pathing to the docking tile may be different.
Water industry station docks cover the entire industry, but most of the tiles may be impassable to ships so even though they are technically "docking tiles" they aren't usable. But ships will be able to dock in more places around oil rigs and other water industries now.
Re: Altered ship behaviour in 20190704 nightly
Okay, have fun
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After I wrote this I paused the game and haven't touched it again until now, and the fishing boats again sometimes report that they've lost their way. It seems to happen when a new boat arrives before the previous one has left, and then the first boat complains about having lost its way after it has left the fishing grounds. I see that they dock at different places, and this is probably the cause of the confusion.
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I'm now running the 20190718 nightly, and it seems like the fishing boat problem has been kind of resolved. That is, I've always used a minimal number of orders for ships, and now the pathfinder obviously has been adjusted to a shorter maximum distance between waypoints. It appears like it has been reduced to about 50 tiles Manhattan Distance. For each route where the ships complained about having lost their way, I've now placed extra buoys and inserted them into the order list, and the complaints have ended.
It would be nice if such changes had been documented somewhere.
I still don't like how the ships seem to crash into the dockside, run by a drunken captain, but at least that's a relatively minor nuisance compared to the constant whining about ships having lost their way.
It would be nice if such changes had been documented somewhere.
I still don't like how the ships seem to crash into the dockside, run by a drunken captain, but at least that's a relatively minor nuisance compared to the constant whining about ships having lost their way.
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