My ship does not follow given target - why?

[Nicoman35]

I am doing a custom jump move script.
I want a ship to jump to a target object, then nearing it untill a certain range.

I call my script with this:

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$homebase = [PLAYERSHIP]-> get homebase
$return = [PLAYERSHIP]-> call script 'anarkis.lib.jumpmove' : argument1=$homebase

The jump is done ok, but then... my ship is going top speed, maintains that speed flying in some wierd direction, no matter what. And it is not close to the direction the target object is.

I have tried

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$arrived = [THIS]-> follow object $object with precision 10000 m

as well as (in a while loop)

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$arrived = [THIS]-> follow object $object with precision 10000 m : timeout=2000 ms

Question: Why is the ship not following the given target, but flying straigt away somewhere???
(if needed, I can post the whole script)

[UniTrader]

where is your destination object? (coordinates)

where did you add those lines? after the script call? does this Script even exit?

[Nicoman35]

where is your destination object? (coordinates)

where did you add those lines? after the script call? does this Script even exit?

The "follow object" lines are integrated in the script 'anarkis.lib.jumpmove'
And the script does exist, as some debugging code before and behind the "follow object" lines is executed correctly.

The target object is the playerships homebase (an M2), and the M2 is idling somewhere near the middle of the sector (0,0,0).

[Jack08]

Why are you using $object within your script? shouldn't you be using $argument1 as thats the name of the argument you gave in the script call.

You will definitely need to post the whole script if this isnt the problem.

[zanzal]

I didn't think the player ship was supposed to have a homebase...

[Nicoman35]

Thans for the efforts, gentlemen.
Sorted it out.

Here the explenation:

This call

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$homebase = [PLAYERSHIP]-> get homebase
$return = [PLAYERSHIP]-> call script 'anarkis.lib.jumpmove' : argument1=$homebase 

is inside of a script called by a hotkey. Thus, there is no reference object on which this script is running (null call).
Now - my wrong asumption, when calling a script on an object (in this case the playership) from a global script, the called script would run on task 0 of the object.

WRONG! It is not running on task 0, as far as I can see, it is not running at all on some task on the object, but is somehow also running as a global task.

Conclusion: Never - Never ever call something with a call like this

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= $some.object -> call script 'some.script' :

from a global script.

Use instead:

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$some.object-> begin task 0 with script 'some.script' and priority 0: arg1=null arg2=null arg3=null arg4=null arg5=null

Prevents wierd, puzzling results, which make you ask dumb questions in the forum anoying the others.

[Cycrow]

or this

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START $some.object -> call script: 'some.script;