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Gun turrets and other weapon systems for KSP
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300m/s afterburner threshold #466

Closed Stardust-Rapture closed 6 years ago

Stardust-Rapture commented 6 years ago

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ISSUE TYPE

I mean it's kinda all both. Not really a bug... but it's an odd bit in the programming.

KSP and BDA Version

KSP 1.3.1

BDA 1.0.0

OS / ENVIRONMENT

Windows 10

SUMMARY

AI Pilot behavior is such that 300m/s is an automatic 'turn on the afterburners' threshold. Bit annoying that a plane has enough thrust to supercruise, but it'll turn on the burners anyways.

Setting max speed of 300m/s, the AI pilot will fly that plane as fast as it can up to 300m/s without using afterburners (unless max speed cannot be attained without afterburners, which is reasonable behavior). Setting max speed of 301m/s, it'll turn on afterburners and then put throttle down to whatever low value it needs to keep a limit of 301m/s, even if a plane has enough dry thrust to maintain higher speeds (e.g., 320m/s).

Behavior was observed during AI Dogfight Competitions, when aircraft are approaching each other from starting positions.

Gedas-S commented 6 years ago

I can confirm this. We'll see if taking this logic out doesn't break anything. Thanks for the report!

Last part of line 160 in BDAirspeedControl: if (allowAfterburner && (accel < requestAccel*0.2f || targetSpeed > 300))

gomker commented 6 years ago

Closing as this will be in merge branch