[KaleunMarco]

Originally Posted by propbeanie

There are probably other reasons, but the main one is the grouping's ships are set too close to each other, and the "collision avoidance" is constantly engaged. The liner is probably trying to avoid the closest ship to it, so constantly helms away from it, while all the other escorts are trying to avoid the Liner... The game has a "minimum" spacing of 500 meters between ships, but that is center-point to center-point on the ships. If a ship is 500m long, it has already eaten half of that distance with its on hull. Add the 110m of an escort, and it is sensing an imminent collision constantly... pia to correct, but it is doable. SH3 has Hebe's mySH3-Tool that does flag all such groupings, but alas, that is not enabled for the SH4 game as of yet. We'll have to do some more, and stronger arm twisting...

i thought of that but the behaviour is repetitive...and does not stop until i leave the area and the RGG "unspawns" back to one entity. The one-and-only non-combatant ship just keeps making circles and the escorts run around her like The Three Stooges.

the troop convoy groups that i am thinking are the culprits all have Spacing = 700 (meters). the troop ship in question was a Kiturin which is 130m. that kinda led me to believe that spacing was not the issue. (700/130 = 5.3)

initially i was leaning toward the issue is that the Leader did not spawn and the ship selected by the AI as replacement-Leader had a poor skill rating. but that was not the case either, as the Leader was one of the escorts and not the unspawned ship and the DD had Elite skills. One would think that the Elite-Leader would have the RGG making progress, on course, on time, towards the destination.