The autopilot & dismiss ship

6eJIka_u_CTpeJIka

6eJIka_u_CTpeJIka
Dear Lacon Spaceways, Core Dynamics, Imperial Gutamaya and the rest!

I’d like to inform you about the unacceptable behavior of the firmware of the autopilot of the ship if you drive away from the ship on the SRV more than 2.5 km. For unknown reasons, this software starts the engines and takes the ship into orbit without the order of the commander. This behavior is the "brain" of the ship poses a threat of destruction of property and the very life of the ship's captain.

Previously, the autopilot in this part completely obeyed the order of the person, and it was useful:
  • You could determine distances on the ground, based on the signal of your ship.
  • You could land on the bottom in a narrow winding canyon, where the autopilot will never be able to land itself due to technical limitations, and go about your business, not caring that you have to climb 1-2 km up on completely impassable terrain.
  • You could sneak up by SRV on a settlement being bombarded by a Targoid ship and not worry about it spotting your ship, left in side. And this is not 2, not 3, but all 6-7km away, and most often not on the parquet.
  • Finally, only a lucky accident saved my ship, unexpectedly taken by autopilot into orbit, from falling due to lack of reactor power while turning on both the garage and the engines — and how many such cases!

The main question is brewing — Who is in charge on the ship? Who pays for repairs and fuel? Who will risk life and health, I'm not talking about the usual dizziness when we forced to "walk" through the mountains because the ship does not want to land closer?

If this is a deliberate change in the functionality of the autopilot, then it seems that someone has not left the cozy soft plush chairs for a long time and go to the office and home only by stairs, which have carpets and railings.
Where's Terra incognito's railing?

Thank you for your time, role mode is off.

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Please allow the pilots to dismiss the ship themselves
 
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M00ka

M00ka
Faded Glory said:
Yes, you're right...

Mind you, it would be nice to have at least the option to have it not take off just because it feels lonely. :)

Damn nanny autopilot.
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Oh yeah, turning the function off wouldn't cause any problems at all:

Help, I can't find my ship. I turned off auto-depart because I found a really sweet landing zone. It was so pretty, I took heaps of pictures [imagine a handful of screen shots of a standard rocky world, quite boring actually]. Anyway I decided to do some exploring so I took off in my SRV and drove for around an hour or so. Now I can't find my ship, and because I turned off the auto-depart I can't summon it either. What am I to do [insert sounds of crying]
 

Speedcuffs

Speedcuffs
M00ka said:
Oh yeah, turning the function off wouldn't cause any problems at all:

Help, I can't find my ship. I turned off auto-depart because I found a really sweet landing zone. It was so pretty, I took heaps of pictures [imagine a handful of screen shots of a standard rocky world, quite boring actually]. Anyway I decided to do some exploring so I took off in my SRV and drove for around an hour or so. Now I can't find my ship, and because I turned off the auto-depart I can't summon it either. What am I to do [insert sounds of crying]
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I have some dumbfire missiles to help with that.
 

Faded Glory

Faded Glory
M00ka said:
Oh yeah, turning the function off wouldn't cause any problems at all:

Help, I can't find my ship. I turned off auto-depart because I found a really sweet landing zone. It was so pretty, I took heaps of pictures [imagine a handful of screen shots of a standard rocky world, quite boring actually]. Anyway I decided to do some exploring so I took off in my SRV and drove for around an hour or so. Now I can't find my ship, and because I turned off the auto-depart I can't summon it either. What am I to do [insert sounds of crying]
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Yep, you're right, the game's really too difficult as it is...

As you were. :)
 

6eJIka_u_CTpeJIka

6eJIka_u_CTpeJIka
There was a time when the ship did as it does now, then there was a time when it sat and waited for the commander wherever he was.
When you land on a small patch of rough terrain, you can land the ship, because there is no one on the surface and the system allows you to do it. But when you are on the same piece of flat land (where your ship could already sit and wait for you) try to call it again — here you will fail, because on the surface there is already an SRV and the autopilot is ' afraid’ to crush you.

I'm not kidding at all about 7km, I did go to the abandoned settlements on the SRV while the ship was waiting for me.
 

Ascendingbike42

Ascendingbike42
6eJIka_u_CTpeJIka said:
There was a time when the ship did as it does now, then there was a time when it sat and waited for the commander wherever he was.
When you land on a small patch of rough terrain, you can land the ship, because there is no one on the surface and the system allows you to do it. But when you are on the same piece of flat land (where your ship could already sit and wait for you) try to call it again — here you will fail, because on the surface there is already an SRV and the autopilot is ' afraid’ to crush you.

I'm not kidding at all about 7km, I did go to the abandoned settlements on the SRV while the ship was waiting for me.
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No it's always auto dismissed at 2.5km you used to be able to turn off the thrusters to stop it launching but that doesn't work anymore
 
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