1.5 Bug - Explore command takes ship 6226km away

[Mike Roberts]

I set 28 ships off with the explore command (both to explore and up-skill pilots (latter no impact)) in different sectors. Half of them have got well beyond the original sector size - leading the original sector now around 1/6 the size and difficult to see the original stations. In the example here it is 6226km away and 0m/s http://customelectronics.co.uk/X4/explore1.jpg and the sector view: http://customelectronics.co.uk/X4/explore2.jpg
Please confirm this is bug and find a way to reset the map sector sizes in a future update.
Normal game start, no mods, around 100 hrs play.
Thank you. Mike

[hort_wort]

I did that by accident with one of mine. If I click around in the map to scroll it, I quite often accidentally grab an order from a ship. Like the little circle that says "explore this area" or an arrow that says "go here". I end up dragging that little marker wayyyyyyy off without even noticing that I've done it sometimes. Every now and then I'll get a warning message and find out I accidentally sent a ship into Xenon space or something. I've actually lost a couple larger ships doing that. Maybe I'm talking about a different issue entirely, but that's what I assumed was going on.

[TxRanger55]

I had one do this as well. I was trying to pull my fleet back together for an invasion, and I couldn't locate one on the map. I teleported to it and found it WAY out in the middle of nowhere. I was able to give it a new command to dock at a base and it eventually got there, but there is no way I could have accidentally given it the command to fly where it was. The only command in the list was explore the sector.

[Mike Roberts]

This has now continued to impact nearly all the sectors where I have set a ship to explore. The explore command is a disaster and I wish I had never tried it. It has done nothing to up-skill the pilots/captains. It also does not identify data vaults, and since most of the core area has now been travelled by the exploring ships I can no longer see where I have been and hence where I still need to search for the vaults. I hope a fix can be found. It would be a great shame to throw away 100 hrs of play!
The ability to clear the darkened areas that have been travelled/searched would be a help. Mike

[j.harshaw]

fixed. fix should be in a future update.