Suicidal traders fly through XEN systems

[Herasteane]

Hey there.

I have a little problem. I have a few profitable deals available in FRF territory, to sell into TEL factories.

Thing is that my traders are on autopilots, and they take the shortest route possible...
That leads them right into 2 XEN systems with huge fleets patrolling them.

Is there a way to tell them not to jump to their death or should I just ban the FRF from the autotrade, in order to try and save them? (Which I don't want to do, trying to get some extra REP with them)

Thank you!

[Rickardus]

You can blacklist certain systems as well as space controlled by enemies. Just set 2, one for civilian activities and one for travel, you shouldn't have a problem then.

[Bozz 💀]

yes that's something that is working very well in this game, In my game I'm at war with 3 factions and I almost never loose traders.

[Herasteane]

I didn't realise there was an option for that on the player's info. Took me a while to figure out what you were talking about.
Thank you!

[Herasteane]

Oh well... I did set up a blacklist. Both for military and civilian ships.
Travel sector bans XEN, KAK and enemies.

the AI is "apparently" using the blacklist I created, but they still want to fly through the XEN sectors... I'm rather confused.

[gigastar]

Orders shown on the map will still path through blacklisted sectors, however they will path around those sectors.

[Herasteane]

Originally posted by gigastar:

Orders shown on the map will still path through blacklisted sectors, however they will path around those sectors.

Oh, they do... I thought they were just going to keep on going.
They do take a very long route though. Mine would have a shorter mean of going to his target station but he just makes a really huge circle around the galaxy right now. Any thoughts?

Edit : NVM... On the map it looks like a major detour, but considering the number of gates he has to jump through, its probably the same distance only by a few KMs.

Thank you all for your help!

[Bozz 💀]

using highway ?

[Herasteane]

Originally posted by Bozz 💀:

using highway ?

I have installed a mod to disable the highways, really don't like them.

[Bozz 💀]

Then maybe they think they are using highways even if they are not there xD
I've never seen my ships make big detours around the map to reach a specific destinations, they do tend to prefer ussing highways which is normal because it is a lot faster that way and you can even fly through ennemy territory safely using them.