Drones bug, ai shutdown and thrust problems. Coincidence ?

[Aixon]

We played a small fun game without even trying to play normal and bought a lot of drones after the 9th drone they refused to do anything and you coudnt give them orders. Also the normal ss thrust broke and could no longer be used. replay added

[Diveyoc]

A few days ago I saw a drone flying a miner around, bumping into asteroids like he was drunk.

[Siretu]

There seems to still exist a problem with navigation when you get too many ships out. As long as you don't get too many, everything works fine. I'll try to track down the issue.

[Red-Rocket]

ok more then 9 ai is way to much, probably puting a limit on ai is more reasonable then fixing this problem, i mean cmon, who gets 9 ai?

[Siretu]

Pff, I wont limit AI.

Also, the problem is not the AI. The problem is the amount of ships at the same time. 9 ships at the same time is not unreasonable.

It should be fairly easy to reproduce, so I'll look into it.

[Aixon]

nice because this bug could appear in any other normal game too.

[zakhennahr]

I would like to mention that in this game, two main bugs are visible:

1. Fatal AI Error, restarting AI, at around the 24 minute mark.
2. No thrust on the SS. It sounds like Siretu knows about this and where to look for it. This caused the AIs to not be able to move, possibly masking the first error.

They may be related, but the AI code should not fail (might I add entertainingly spectacularly) as it did due to the thrust being at 0.