Autoscouting movements need controls

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Philosopher Cody
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Autoscouting movements need controls

Postby Philosopher Cody » Mon 11 Mar, 2024 18:55

This is feedback about how autoscouts move around a galaxy. Currently they move around in a predetermined manner from top to bottom. This places a huge advantage to whoever has a base in the lower left hand corner of a galaxy as having a base there with a jumpgate significantly reduces the amount of time it takes to autoscout a galaxy. A ship traveling from the very bottom to the very top goes much faster if you have a base with a jumpgate there.

I think there should be advanced autoscouting controls that allow a player to determine the exact movement of their scout ship. I think there should be at the least the following options:
1. Reverse direction. This would invert the path and make scout ships travel from the bottom to the top. Basically doing the default path but in reverse.
2. Up and down movement option. Instead of the ships moving from left to right, and then right to left, they would move up and down the galaxies and then advance to the side by 1. Basically instead of going row by row, this option would let a person go column by column.
3. Speed controls for scout ships. Right now we have speed controls for when using a jumpgate. Players should be allowed to set their scout ship's speed. This would vastly help out guilds who try and coordinate multiple players autoscouting a particular galaxy. Right now if there are multiple players and each goes a different speed, the scout ships do not stay the same distance apart.
4. Autoscout Cluster option. Allow a player to set a scout ship so that it autoscouts an entire cluster such as galaxies 10 through 19. A ship would travel around and go through all the galaxies in a cluster instead of just staying inside one galaxy.

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