Witchspacing near Torus station

Odo987 · Post by **Odo987** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 4:22 am

As of 1.65, one is forced to go an unreasonable distance from torus stations (torus.oxp) before one can witchspace. In the screen shot below I'm on the planet's surface and I'm still not far enough away.

Maybe I should buy a mining laser and try digging a hole in the planet so I can put some more distance between me and that station.

Interestingly, non-player ships have no problems jumping nearby.

magamo · Post by **magamo** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 5:12 am

I've run into this one in the past. Try hyperspacing from about 15-24 km BEHIND the Torus. That seems to be the workaround for me.

Uncle Reno · Post by **Uncle Reno** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 7:01 am

Hi. this came up in this thread and was written off as a "feature".

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 9:33 am

The bit where AI ships can jump close by strikes me as not-a-feature, though.

Odo987 · Post by **Odo987** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 7:04 pm

Uncle Reno wrote:
Hi. this came up in this thread and was written off as a "feature".

Thanks for that link. It appears that the participants of that thread simply thought the radius was somewhat bigger than expected. Now we're noticing something else, it's not a sphere. Instead it seems to be a cylinder projecting into the planet. I'm uncertain whether the zone projects out the planet's far side; I've tried it a couple of times but lining up is a challenge.

aegidian · Post by **aegidian** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 10:11 pm

My bad.

There are some stoopid bugs in the code that check for things that might block a witchspace exit.

Basically I screwed up the code royally.

I've fixed it now, sorry commanders.