Re: Slave abandons mining to follow master
Neonic wrote:
Given the error message, I concluded that the slave was running out of energy either due to being attacked and trying to regen the shields, or the generator wasn't powerful enough for the mining laser. Attacking it myself didn't cause any issues and so I put a more powerful generator in and the problem has not occurred since. It's been over a week now. Hopefully that's the end of it. However, this doesn't explain how the slave could get so far away within a few hours that it took days for it to fly back when recalled.
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For crying out loud!!!
It's done it again. The slave is currently more than 11 million miles (or whatever the distance units are) from where it should be. How does it get so far away in such a short time and what is causing it?
Slaves do not receive the benefits of the weapon charging effect you get from your main ship. If their elec bank is smaller than the weapon they want to fire's elec usage, they cannot shoot and it causes all sorts of weird bugs.
As for your distance problem, sounds like your slave is somehow managing to teleport around, or you are underestimating how far a slave can fly in x amount of time. Our speed is literally distance traveled per second, so 11m would take quite a while depending on the max speed of your slave, but it is possible. And since trade slaves don't poof when you log out, your slave could have easily had a night or two to run away before you noticed it.