Swarm Units splitting up...but not centered...

Xurium

Hey there, community,
I built recently a ship, that splits up into many swarm ships with laser beams. That's a tactic I saw in Multiplayer and I wanted to develop my on version of that.
I use explosives to split the ships apart.
But now there is a problem I don't really understand. The splitted ships fly not centered, but diagonally. Only the ship that was one in the middle flies like it should...
But the ships are all symmetrical, I don't get it, please help me out 🙂

Minion222

Xurium could you show a screenshot or give me the ship so i can figure it out?

Sombreroman

Xurium I have the Exact same Problem.

Dibs

The side with the most thrust will be the orientation for the split up ships that aren't considered the 'original' ship

Xurium

image https://i.imgur.com/b2dX36x.jpg
It looks like this, when they are connected. If I just spawn a single one, it flies well.
image https://i.imgur.com/J8s7AcU.jpg
But when they are seperated, they do this and because they have a beam ray, which can only shoot forward, they will never hit a enemy target... :/
But the ships I once saw in Multiplayer worked in the same concept and were able to focus on the target...
Dibs, I don't get it, the ships are symmetrical, they should be centered, shouldn't they?

Oneye

Xurium The game automatically chooses the "best flight direction" when a ship splits. Your large amount of side thrust, and equal amount of forward and backward thrust is throwing it off. I would recommend replacing the 4 standard engines with 2 large ones, and spacing out your side thrust. If that doesn't work you will just have to manually change the flight direction.

Walt

Oneye The game automatically chooses the "best flight direction" when a ship splits.

A while ago I added this "feature" because people were complaining about the game not doing it. I can take it out though, if people think it's doing more harm than good.

Eventually when docking gets added, this whole problem will become moot because you'll be able to specify the flight direction of each individual ship.

Xurium

Man, thats it, thank you so much. 🙂

Xurium

Walt Hm, it is not really a bad thing, that the ships automatically calculate the best direction, only in that case somehow...maybe it would be cool to be able to shut it off manuelly and then be able to specify the flight direction for some ships.
Docking sounds cool. Guess building carrier-ships makes much more sense then 🙂
My wraith cruisers will be very happy 😃

Xurium

Walt I got another question. It seems like those explosives don't hurt ships nearby, is that true? Would like to built a brander, that makes suicide attacks....but the seem to bring no use

Oneye

Walt Yeah, I don't think it's much of a problem. It would be somewhat more helpful if they kept the flight direction the "mothership" had. But then swarms with ships facing other directions would be harder to use. Also, this is off-topic, but I just realized that @Dalas120 is in the credits of the game...

Walt

Xurium It seems like those explosives don't hurt ships nearby, is that true?

The AOE on the explosive charge is very small. It basically needs to be touching the enemy to do significant damage. They aren't really designed to be an offensive weapon.

Dalas120

Oneye Wow I'm flattered! Even though it's spelled wrong 🙂

Oneye

Dalas120 Also, what are you flattered about?

Walt

Dalas120 Even though it's spelled wrong

Oops. 😃

Dalas120

Oneye I didn't know I was in the credits

Oneye

Dalas120 Yeah, im so jealous. 😉

Oneye

Walt I would think @Equalizer would be in the credits too. Something like "the oldest player who is still active." xD