AI ships stuck in docking process?

[clausimu]

There is something strange going on with ships set to dock (ship:AIDockWith(starport)). The AI triggers the event "onAICompleted", but flight status of the ship is stuck in "DOCKING". This does not seem to happen for every docking event. I can't figure out what exactly triggers this. Has anybody else seen this?

I'm currently using the 20150120 build for 64-bit linux.

[impaktor]

You might want to consider posting bug reports on the issue tracker, if you have more coming. We are not notified on new posts and topics on the forum, but are for github.

Are you saying the state of ships are "DOCKING" even long after they've finished docking and should have flight state "DOCKED"?

[clausimu]

That's correct. The AI has completed the task to dock with the starport and the event onAICompleted is triggered. But I kept getting game crashes when giving ships the undock command. So I checked and found that although the AI believes it is done, the ship is actually kept in "DOCKING" status. I have not actually seen the ships in question (to say if they are "hanging" in midair or if they have actually landed). But either the event onAICompleted should not be triggered, or the flight status needs to be changed to "DOCKED".

I have posted it as a bug report. I didn't feel comfortable doing that yet. I'm still not sure I understand the internals of the game well enough to distinguish a game bug from my stubipity... :)

[impaktor]

I have posted it as a bug report. I didn't feel comfortable doing that yet. I'm still not sure I understand the internals of the game well enough to distinguish a game bug from my stubipity... :)

Don't be affraid to post bug reports on github, if they're "wrong"/not bugs, we'll just close them, nothing more to it, and the report goes away. However, on this forum, posts will not go away, but instead float around here for all time evermore.

We're happy to get bug reports since few/none of us have time to play the game beyond convincing ourselves that the feature we added works.

A good report aught to keep the following in mind: describe what happened, and if possible, how to reproduce, and if needed what you expected the correct behaviour to be.

[clausimu]

Thanks. I will move posts about (perceived) bugs to the github - and leave true questions here.

Thank you for being so prompt in answering my posts!