I've been spending a lot of time trying to get the Dependency feature to function correctly.  Theoretically, any date depending on another should retain the time/date gap between the two, correct?

I have around 100 different tasks in my project, and A)it's been extremely tedious to link dependencies between the lot, and B)once I had it set up, it didn't work.  Instead of retaining the gaps between the linked dependencies, it bunched them all together, end to end. 

You'll have to pardon my ignorance here, as the info on dependency is rather sparse, but if I take task A-F, and I link B-F to A, they should technically follow the change of date on A, and still retain the distances of time between each independent task and task A.  When I tried that, it simply made them all the next day after A. 

1. A 08/01/16 

2. B 08/02/16  1

3. C 08/02/16  1    and so forth.

But even outside of that, I originally linked each depending on another, and whatnot, but it still did not allow for gaps and turned my project into a mess.  I ended up having to deleting all dependencies, and re-inserting correct dates by hand.

Am I missing something here?