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kyranf / robotarmyfactorio

A mod to add robot troop units and perhaps associated support buildings and items to produce and control them.
MIT License
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Rally point behaviour seems erratic #88

Closed boogieman1402 closed 7 years ago

boogieman1402 commented 7 years ago

When I place a rally point, all robots on the map (just riflebots atm, if that matters) seem to freeze in place. After I remove the rally point, they suddenly seem to decide they want to be at the rally point (but shortly after they get there, they move away again).

kyranf commented 7 years ago

Can you estimate how far away the squads were from your rally point? Can you try again with a rally point "close by" a squad and see if you you see the same freezing? I think the freezing behaviour is caused because over long distances the pathfinder actually takes so long to find a route that the squad doesn't start moving before the rally point pulses a new "move to" command, which restarts the pathfinder and therefore the squads never actually get a path and start moving because just before they get a path, the path request is re-sent.

If you can confirm this by doing the test I asked, then I think a reasonable work-around is just a much longer time between the rally point pulsing a move-command to squads

boogieman1402 commented 7 years ago

Yeah, squads were quite a distance from the rally point and placing it closer by does make a big difference, so your pathfinding theory sounds plausible.

If you want to play around with my setup, the save and full modset are here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/fzjkyhnvrevzely/AADfGYgmymnNg033E1v2ESc8a?dl=0 Player's standing next to the only rally point, there's a few squads scattered across the map, mostly north and northwest.

kyranf commented 7 years ago

I removed the rally points for now. To handle your army, use the map zoom view and the selection/pickup tools.