automated exploration

[echoes222]

any1 knows why my explorers do not explore/survey if set to be automated, but they do when I manually click?
edit: and now the 2nd explorer I've built that is set to automation, is just surveying my home planet ><

[I Throw Spears.]

Do they have fuel? Do they have a warp drive of some sort?

[echoes222]

Originally posted by I Throw Spears.:

Do they have fuel? Do they have a warp drive of some sort?

yes and no. Now they have warp drives and started exploring. it was weird becaus emy home planet has both moon and asteroids, so plenty of targets for pre-warp scouts. Nevermind, problem resolved itself.

[HugsAndSnuggles]

Originally posted by echoes222:

any1 knows why my explorers do not explore/survey if set to be automated, but they do when I manually click?

Because with default setting they are

Originally posted by echoes222:

surveying ... home planet

first, then go further away.

[echoes222]

yeah, but I had 2, one was surveying home planet and 2nd one was just sitting next to moon and like 20 asteroids :P

[50 Shades of Gandalf the Grey]

Explorers oftentimes won't do missions if the travel time would be prohibitive. Their default setting DOES have them explore and survey when automated.

If yours aren't exploring, there are a few things to check on:

1) Threats in area

2) Fuel Capacity

3) Jumpdrive Reach

Clearing out threats and increasing your fuel cap/jump range should almost always get things working again.

[Sabaithal]

Also they won't attempt to explore or navigate nebulas or galactic storms until it is safe for them.

[echoes222]

cool, but that wasn't an issue. Issue was that at the beginning of the pre-warp game, having 2 automated scouts results in one scanning home planet and the other being idle despite having moon and dozen asteroids right next to it. Which is defo a bug in automation. Problem was solved after inventing warp bubble and upgrading both ships. Minor stuff but bug for sure.

[Vyndicu]

I could not reproduce the issue of exploration ships idling before exploring asteroid rocks and moons nearby.

However, I did observe something very strange.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2998494649

The steps to reproduce are as follows: Start a new game on the pre-warp setting. Let everything finish construction as normal.

I manually queued the following items in this order: Queue an exploration ship and then a spaceport on the homeworld while the game is still paused.

Unpause until the exploration ship finishes building after the construction ship. It will auto-explore the SAME targets once it runs out of alternative targets and end up re-survey as the exploration ship you started with (rock, moon, Sun, etc...).


I would expect the newly built exploration ship and the pre-existing exploration ship to survey different targets.

It is possible that if you cancel the construction ship and force the exploration ship one step further that it can come out and start surveying the homeworld at the same time the first exploration ship is still surveying the homeworld.