A Hyp question (or bug?)

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1944 days, 8 hours, 16 minutes ago

Dear everyone,

I tried to hyperjump a ship from inside a webmine field. Although I counted in the 25 KT fuel drain, set warp>0 and the friendly to "HYP", it didnt jump - but rather moved a few lightyears and then hit a mine.

Any idea why it did not jump? The only reason I see is a second webmine field, draining another 25 KT of fuel - but I am quite sure there is no second minefield as I have a couple of ships doing minesweeping close by.

Thanks for your help!

cheers, toennie

PS: Here's the screenshot:

1944 days, 6 hours, 2 minutes ago

toennie

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Thanks a lot guys.

Privs: Not possible as there are no Privateers in the game at all.

Overlapping minefields: The Ship had its mission set to "Mine Sweep" but scanned and swept only one field (ID #166). Shouldnt it have swept two if there were overlapping fields?

Decay: There were lots of minesweepers around - they all cleared mines in field #166 but I guess the Crystals laid new ones so all in all, there was no visible decay.

Ion Storms: Nothing close by that could explain it.

So any other ideas?

1944 days, 5 hours, 56 minutes ago

toennie

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PS: I just saw that the ship's message reads "We have passed through 30 light years of mines last turn" - but in fact the ship travelled only 15 light years. So it probably was inside two minefields - but scanned only one, despite it had its mission set to "minesweep". How can that happen?

1944 days, 5 hours, 35 minutes ago

toennie

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Ok, thanks a lot to you - I think you are right: There indeed is a Ion Storm exactly on the center of a neighbouring webmine field (#190). Two things made me overlook it at first:
1: the ion storm is so harmless that it's almost invisble, especially as its overlaid with the violet webminefield
2: the minefield itself is visible but looks too small to reach my probe. But: I guess the size showing in the map is based on old sweeping information that I collected before the Ion storm crossed the center.
So, I guess minefield #190 was much bigger as it appeared on the map, draining another 25 KT of fuel of my probe.
Updated Screenshot: