Trade route bug?

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Don't know if this is a known issue or not, but when I highlight the longest trade route in my empire it's FAR FAR shorter than it should be. I have Trade Ports on all of my planets and it still only highlights a route of about 7 stops. Also, the longest trade route doesn't seem to take the Capital planet into account properly... I can usually see additional steps the path could take.

Either I'm missing something or this is a bug.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Longest trade route is always shortest route trough all your planets with trade ports. 

So try not to build trade ports on all planets to extend length of your trade route

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Do you have neutral astroid fields and such in between the planets because those will break the trade route till you put an SB with a trade port.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Building a trade port on every planet is usually a bad idea from the trade chain perspective. You have to manually snake it out. If you had a chain A-B-C-D-E, but there is a route from A-C-E, your chain will use that one. Thus if possible you'd want to make the chain A-B-D-E, so you don't build a trade port at C.

Now you can argue this is a bad way to do it, but its how it works.