Anyone else having problems with automatic exploration?

[Ghostwish]

Looks like Paradox broke something else. My science vessels, when set to automatic exploration, use to be rather intelligent about their choices, trying to find the closest systems to my borders to survey next.

Nope. It was a minor annoyance at first as they would skip over grey systems on my border, but now I caught my plucky little explorer trying to go 17 jumps out into completely unsurveyed territory.

So, firstly, what the ♥♥♥♥, and secondly, anyone else?

[Ghostwish]

... so get this. I went ahead and jumped my science vessel out to whatever whacky sector it was going for (12 jumps out in this case) and it turned out to be home to the autonomous repurposer. My scientist was instantly vaporized.

Engaging and thrilling gameplay right here, ladies and maggots.

[Elitewrecker PT]

That's why you don't just jump into no information systems.

[Ghostwish]

It was that or wait the months it would take for my ship to slow boat it out there, and I figured, what could happen? Ate my hat in that one.

I'm still befuddled as to why it was trying to go -there- in particular. Like, is the auto explore feature detecting new anomalies or something?

[Elitewrecker PT]

I mean, couldn't you have jumped to an already scanned system (or with sensor information) close to the unsurveyed ones?

I can't say for sure, and it gets harder with multiple ships, but it seems to prioritise closer systems to your territory, unless it'd take a lot of time to turn back to survey the next closest system.

[Ghostwish]

Well, you're assuming I had any idea that there was a terrible threat which my science vessel would arrive in close proximity to in that particular system. I didn't. It could well have been in the nearby system which had survey information.

Oh, wait, one tidbit I didn't mention: It was sectors that my federation ally had apparently explored. So they had survey information, but, it was 12 jumps from the nearest sensor information system.

I'll keep an eye on it and see if it happens again.

[Boiledteabag]

Heres your awnser, bump survey speed anyway you can, fish for leaders that give it, there is also a rare tech that boosts survey speed and the science traditions boost it too.

I got 99 problems but auto-survey aint one.

[Ghostwish]

okay, yeah, that's a work around, but it doesn't answer or fix the question and problem that auto-survey is acting freaky.