Ship captains/helmsmen are braindead?

[Antonio Accardo]

Sorry if this has been gone over, but I couldnt find anything.
Why, why, why are the captains/helmsmen morons?  if you have more than 4 or 5 ships in a line, I always have one ship, usually right smack in the center, that decides to buckle off and do its own thing, leaving the rest of the line stopped or going very slowly.  12 ships in a line, normal spacing, set to half speed, and #6 or 7 is doing 5 knots while everything behind it spins around trying to figure out what to do.  It's infuriating.

[Stormnet]

Welcome to UAD. Shit like that happens all the time.

Make a fleet formation and time how long the loopy ships take to organize. Spoiler alert, not quick enought before the enemy arrives.

Its gotten better thought, and I doubt devs are gonna leave it this way.

My go to solution is quality over quantity. Make one big ship. It partially solves this problem until the devs patch this.

Edited April 3, 2021 by Stormnet

[Cpt.Hissy]

There's no captains or helmsman currently, only some artificial idiots with steers. This is still very early alpha, wait for AI updates. It slowly improves over time.

[brucesim2003]

And there seems to be nothing you can do to force the slow ship to accelerate.

[Cpt.Hissy]

11 hours ago, brucesim2003 said:

And there seems to be nothing you can do to force the slow ship to accelerate.

if you keep poking it with different orders and swapping divisions, it will eventually wake up and unglitch.