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aerez4546
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Nebula Navigation

February 24, 2015 10:13:19 AM from Galactic Civilizations III ForumsGalactic Civilizations III Forums

Most of the time when I click on a hex within a nebula to tell a ship to go there (to pick up an anomoly for example), the ship ends up taking some insane path through the nebula instead of just going in a straight line.  This is fairly annoying when a ship will burn up 3 turns worth of it's movement, to go a distance of 2 hexes.  I was just wondering if this horrible pathing through nebulas is intentional, or some sort of bug?

 

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aerez4546
BuckGodot
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Reply #1 February 24, 2015 12:39:35 PM
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Nebulas have a 50% accuracy rate, which means if you are trying to get to a destination within it, 50% of the time it will go somewhere else as it gets lost in the cloud.  From what I've seen, if it gets lost on one click, it'll get the correct path next time you click.

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Reply #2 February 24, 2015 12:52:12 PM
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Pretty sure its a bug for some reason the ship always wants to go to the centre of a nebula before it will go to any other tile in a nebula

 

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Reply #3 February 25, 2015 2:03:53 AM
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In my experience you don't want to try to claim an anomaly inside a nebula. I have tried for numerous turns with no success. It is just not worth it.

I usually do auto-survey and the nebulae don't seem to be a problem, but I sometimes do manual early on to avoid the wormholes that cost a lot in lost money while your surveyor takes 20 or so turns to get back to your ZOC 

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