Removes the autopilot function completely #23794
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I'm not sure I've ever seen the autopilot actually succeed at arriving at the coordinates you give it tbh. |
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It SHOULD stop at the destination, but honestly, you'll be lucky if you have a ship by then. |
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I know some people (like me) use autopilot to fly to waypoints that have a clear shot - Not to the destination. Change the autopilot location like three times, and blammo. You're there intact. |
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People are simply using the autopilot functionality wrong. That's no reason to remove it. |
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Could call Astar on it if you want instead, so that it goes around obstacles. But honestly, it's a good way of screwing yourself over right now if you don't know what you're doing: you click autopilot, assuming it's a good way to avoid fuckups, and it rams you into hazards instead. |
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I think removing it is perhaps preferable to the current state. You could replace it with Astar, but the implementation might not be trivial due to the movement physics (you'd need to decompose into straight segments, and possibly course correct on mistakes). You could also try renaming it instead of the hard remove. As it seems unpopular, might be a good candidate for forum deferral. If it wasn't unpopular, I'd have merged it, but as my feelings about it aren't that strong and there's no code-side issues that this solves, I don't feel like it in the present state. |
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This PR will essentially solve #20659 by removing the conditions that cause that runtime. |
馃啈Roland410:
:rscdel:Removes the autopilot function completely.
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This function while good in theory, has been implemented in a way that only allows the ship to go straight to the set coordinates not paying any attention to obstacles in the way.
It often was a tool for griefing or bad antag gimmicks, but also resulted in a lot of new players thinking it was good then causing a lot of damage with it.