Path finding - Survey and Explore

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Hi,

My survey ships (early game, so quite expensive) tend to race with each other for the very same anomaly.

The same seems to happen with auto explore, I wandered why I had half of the reachable area still unmapped only to find six or seven of my auto exploring ships banding together.

Is there a known solution (without micromanaging) to this?

Thanks,

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

They all seem to have the same "go to the nearest X" paradigm with no awareness that another ship is also going to spot X.  I don't know if that awareness is in future plans.  In the meantime, the best I have found is to send such ships to opposite ends of the galaxy and set them loose there.  It's not perfect, but it helps.  Mostly, I drive them manually in the early to middle game stages.

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I also send them in opposite side. So they don't follow themself.

But, eventually, they tend to go on the same spot anyway.

 

I also think, but I might be wrong, that sometime two ships reaching the same anomaly on the same turn give me two different bonus!

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