| More on the North-South Minefield Bug |
Thu, 03 March 2005 19:11  |
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 Crawford |
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Registered: September 2004 | |
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It is known that ships traveling a due north-south course did not trip standard minefields.
The JRC4 patch partially fixed the problem. Ships starting INSIDE the field will detonate mines, even traveling due n-s. However, if the ship starts OUTSIDE the minefield and travels due north-south, it escapes the mines.
But what if the ship isn't going *exactly* north-south, but awfully close to it? After observing a few ships doing just that but not hitting any mines, I did some testbedding.
What I found was that if the ship starts outside the minefield and its final destination is just *slightly* west of due north, it also escapes mine hits. "Slightly" here means one gridpoint, i.e. (1300,1300) to (1299,1400) at warp 10 with perfect safety. It does *not* appear to work if the offset is slightly east.
Has anyone else made the same observation? Or can anyone duplicate these findings in a testbed?
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