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# Enemy seek vector issue (opposite way)

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Hi, I am working on a game and I have the enemies seek the player with a very simple method of turning their direction with respect to the vector from the enemy to the player. It works quite well and I am happy with the movement of the enemies, except for one small problem, when they are walking directly away from me, the vector I use to change their heading direction doesn't turn them. I would like to stay clear of using matrices because there is tons and tons of objects and collisions at the same time and performance is of high value. My current 'seek' code is showing below:

                    toTarget = (Game1.player[seekTarget].position - Game1.mapOffset) - (position - Game1.mapOffset);                //normalize the vector (inline) and avoid dividing by zero                length = (float)Math.Sqrt((toTarget.X * toTarget.X + toTarget.Y * toTarget.Y));                if (length <= 0.001)                    length = 0.00001f;                toTarget.X = toTarget.X / length;                toTarget.Y = toTarget.Y / length;                //turn the direction of its velocity                m_vTurn = toTarget - m_vHeading;                //normalize the vector(same as before)                length = (float)Math.Sqrt((m_vTurn.X * m_vTurn.X + m_vTurn.Y * m_vTurn.Y));                if (length <= 0.1)                    length = 0.00001f;                m_vTurn.X = m_vTurn.X / length;                m_vTurn.Y = m_vTurn.Y / length;                //make sure it's not turning faster than it's allowed                m_vTurn = Vector2.Clamp(m_vTurn, new Vector2(-(float)m_dMaxTurnRate), new Vector2((float)m_dMaxTurnRate));                //implement acceleration in it's movement                Vector2 acceleration = m_vTurn / new Vector2((float)m_dMass, (float)m_dMass);                //change its heading from acceleration                m_vHeading += acceleration * timeLapse / 16;                //normalize the vector(again!)                length = (float)Math.Sqrt((m_vHeading.X * m_vHeading.X + m_vHeading.Y * m_vHeading.Y));                if (length <= 0.1)                    length = 0.00001f;                m_vHeading.X = m_vHeading.X / length;                m_vHeading.Y = m_vHeading.Y / length;                //store the rotation so the enemy is drawn facing the correct way                rotation = (float)Math.Atan2(m_vHeading.Y, m_vHeading.X) + (float)Math.PI / 2;                //finally make the changes to their position, since heading is                 //normalized we can multiply by its max speed                position.X += speed.X * m_vHeading.X * timeLapse / 16;                position.Y += speed.Y * m_vHeading.Y * timeLapse / 16;

so you can see its pretty simple, but I am trying to implement a simple cost effective way to determine that it is walking away and turn it accordingly.. any ideas?? thanks a lot

Ed