I was flying a taur in Pherona N6 (ion storm) and weighed probably 100,000 kg. I was flying directly towards the exit, when I started losing ground to it at around 1500m. Turbo was forced to bring the speed down to nothing to head the correct direction again. Needless to say, the assault destroyed my ship. The only difference between the times this has happened previously and today was that it usually happens when I get much closer to the wh.

This problem has been reported before and still needs to be fixed.

This isn't a bug Fluffy, rather the effect of momentum that you only really see in massive ships. The problem is you are aligning the nose of your ship with the direction of the exit point, but that is not necessarily the direction your ship is really heading (the only way to tell which way you are actually headed is by watching debris, no reticule). What you need to do is overshoot your nose past the exit marker, and realign once your actual direction traveled aligns with the exit point (pay attention to the direction of debris vs your nose heading, which might be hard to do in a storm).

EDIT: Here is an image to help clarify things


The blue line shows your initial vector, which is not heading toward the exit (presumably because you are evading an attacking hive bot). You then turn and point your nose toward the exit, which is the red line. Your actual course is the the sum of those two vectors, shown as the dashed yellow line. So basically the nose of your ship is pointed along the red line but your true heading is along the yellow line.

I'll turn space junk on next time and take a look. I'm not fully buying this explanation (its a good one I'll admit) because the exit marker does not slide out of alignment like it does any other time my course is off, and since I"m turboing, I'm not turning to maintain focus on the exit. I have also experienced this starting from a dead stop, so another reason I'm reluctant to accept this. By your illustration, I should be seeing the exit point slide across my hud.

Multiple things could be causing this.

1. if you aren't fully stopped when aiming, your sideways momentum could be drifting you (as meridian suggests)

2. as you were going towards the exit point, you may have hit an asteroid or something but didn't notice.

No - I too have seen this bug - around 1500m to the storm exit the counter actually reverses and begins to count up - The exit marker does not appear to move or jump untill it is off screen. It only seems to happen when hauling very heavy loads and it is fairly rare....