I’ve been having problems with Align, Keep at Range and Orbit for a few days now.
If I let a ship orbit an object, or park a ship at a certain distance from an object, the ship loses this command after a certain time.
With Keep at range, the ship flies randomly in any direction.
When orbiting in my ishtar, the ishtar remains stationary without any further input or aligns itself in any direction. As I don’t fly my ishtar passively, but sit actively at the pc, I was able to prevent worse four times in one site, but in the end I still had to warp out twice because the ship suffered structural damage.
I don’t want this to come across as a silly suggestion but jave you checked your mouse?
I azk because I had this for an entire evening, I play on the steam deck, and there was a small drop of water on the screen, it is a touch screen, and a touch is a mouse click, and the water was effectively simulating a double click, which as we know, will make the ship move in the direction of a double click…
A faulty mouse clicking itself randomly will do the same.
My old mouse would sometimes unintentionally doubleclick, which is rarely relevant except while in space in EVE, as it overrides move commands and made me wonder why my ship was off in a completely different direction instead of following the rest of the fleet.
You would have to be actively playing and using the mouse (or keys) for accidental uses to happen, and it sounds like the OP was actively playing.
Accidental mouse presses or keyboard presses are my bet.
it was actually the mouse (Roccat Kone Aimo),
A notch had been pressed into the contact surface that touches the microswitches, causing double clicks in other applications over the last few days.
I took the mouse apart and filed down the contact surfaces, let’s see how long that helps.