Type: Ships/Systems? Bug: When the Longhorn tries to go around some planets in auto-pilot, it can not slow down fast enough and crashes into the atmosphere.
Reproduction Steps:
Own a longhorn frigate-thingy
Choose to dock/go-to to e.g. a Mooring Fixture of a planet. But your ship is on the side or behind the planet, not in a straight line.
Your ship will cruise up fast, then slow down, crash into the atmosphere, start exploding and only then make the turn. You die.
Additional Information: This was tested undocking from Rhodes Shipyard and then choosing to dock on Planet Crete. But I am sure there are several other planets where this will happen too.
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Capital ships have been dying to autopilot for a year now. Adding mass causes this. There is an argument to be made that you shouldn't afk when flying through a planet, but the autopilot should still not kill you. I'll mark it as work in progress, it's not a simple fix or we'd have done it by now. We have some ideas how to address it.