Escort ships - spiraling out of control throughout the whole map

Bug Report Section Open Space
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Bug report:

 

This is very old and annoying bug.

When you undock at Open Space, basically whenever, for the first time after login, you can usually see some spiraling or crazed engine trails from the escort ships that is:

  • either stuck and spirals or rotates out of control (if you touch or collide with the ship, your ship will do the same, you get catapulted or teleported around the map, until the wild movement slowly, but gradually subsides

  • when this happens, escort ship can be invisible, so you can’t see it, but it’s clearly there, marked by the HUD

  • you can see the icon of the escort ship on the 2D map (if all  markers are checked - toggled on)

  • engine trail is projected and shows all the movement of the ship (yellow, if in Empire, Red, if in Jericho, blue if in Federation), sometimes it even looks very beautiful, but disturbing

This occurrence is quite common, you just need to pay attention to your map

 

Conditions to replicate:

When you login for the 1st time, just undock with a ship, preferably a Tackler (observe mostly allied convoys)

  • undock at Guardian-17, hopefully you will spot the issue (could be any other locations)

  • see the convoy with escort ships, usually allied ones, but it can happen in other locations or convoys as well

 

Specifics:

  • usually only one ships is affected out of four

  • usually it’s the ship on the bottom right

  • it will gradually return to its position after spiraling out of control and return to its original post or spot

  • sometimes the ship will become invisible, but not from the HUD, only visually

  • engine trail  will follow the ship in a random geometric patterns (yellow, red or blue trail)

 

Logs: (sorry, I am unsure about the time stamps, but I really got the best example, it’s all in the logs)

Important: (check for logs, when I started to do Open Space missions in Open Space, specifically In Empire Space - Guardian-17 for the first time )

The issue that I described happened in Guardian-17, when I was travelling to the gate (unsure, which ones - Imperial Transport Hub or Ontregos Pass)

I encountered such issue with one of the allied escort ships

I collided with the spiraling escort ship (yellow geometry lines) and get wildly moved and (shaken and stirred), I also received some collision damage

 

 

Will provide a video, if I can replicate it:

Spoiler

reserved for a video link

 

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If you wait where they spawn and get one to spawn inside you, your ship will basically turn in to a sphere of (whatever colour your ship is mostly) with random engine and attitude thruster lights all over. It’s kinda funny. Works best in Crimson Haze PvE.

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12 hours ago, TheDarkRedFox said:

If you wait where they spawn and get one to spawn inside you, your ship will basically turn in to a sphere of (whatever colour your ship is mostly) with random engine and attitude thruster lights all over. It’s kinda funny. Works best in Crimson Haze PvE.

Got one today, but in Federation space, Station Eden, while returning to dock. Need to record the next one.

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We can’t repeate this bug yet

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I think simply setting the escorts a few meters further from the cargo would solve this. Seems like they just end up spawning inside the transport hitbox, then try to get to its programmed position, then this happens. But i am no programmer. So what do i know.