Extended jumpjet hovering

[TaranDahl]

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Description

Extended Jumpjet Hovering

• In vanilla, jumpjets scatter while hovering by randomly setting a destination to a nearby cell. This approach is inefficient when many jumpjets are crowded around, and it forces the unit to turn, which interferes with firing for non-omni-firing units.
• Now you can enable a new hovering scatter behaviour via the following switch, which disperses units more efficiently and without requiring the unit to turn.
  • ExtendedJumpjetHovering controls whether the new hovering scatter behaviour is enabled.

In rulesmd.ini:

[JumpjetControls]                ; global section
ExtendedJumpjetHovering=false   ; boolean

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[Coronia]

with this PR jumpjets will scatter in a pattern like infantry: 3 of them will try to occupy a cell. Guess this is intended

bandicam.2026-08-22.00-20-31-707.mp4

this is not always a better behavior tho, since it'll make jumpjets more vulnerable to aoe damage and make it harder to pick a jumpjet from a cluster. It would be better to split the '3 cells scattering' and 'no need to turn' into 2 different tags so there's more choice here

[TaranDahl]

That is not the case.
The final scatter result is: for any units A and B, the distance between A and B shall be no less than the sum of their collision radii, where the collision radius is 64 (for infantry) or 128 (for vehicles or aircraft).
(But it does not seem to have met the design goals. I will check it.)