AI Pathfinding - 18 Billion to PHQ

[Sirus5]

So - PHQ is Claytronics and Hull parts to facilitate building of other facts.

Few Minora and a Crane supply minerals.
3 Crane supply gas....

The 3 Gas Cranes are getting Methane in 18 Billion South area which is a reasonable area to dredge.

When they come to transfer to the PHQ in Grand Exchange - they don't go through Grand Exchange IV to GE 1
They go North via Hatikvah's, Argon Prime, BHS etc... Such a long way round.
I tried telling them to go Manually - but still they go North.

Currently trying other options and have found out that if I ask them to "Explore" the south jump gate - they
get into GE IV and then I can tell them to go dump their Methane at the PHQ - and this works - they go South

I will try and see if instead of asking them to explore the south Accelerator, to simply "Fly to" GE IV and then
when in GE IV ask them to go transfer to the PHQ and see if that works next -

Then I can give more informative feedback.

[Mileron]

In a prior post, I calculated that, for certain areas in GE1, it is in fact a shorter distance - but not necessarily shorter time - for ships within a certain range of certain gates in that sector to fly through BHS5/4 to get to the highway to get to where they are supposed to go in GE1.

It's highly likely that where your miner is gathering has a similar state - it's actually a shorter distance for the ship to get from "Mining Spot A-18Billion" to PHQ-GE1, because the AI doesn't seem to take highways into account as actual distance traveled.

[Sirus5]

Thanks for the idea Mileron - I have just mapped most of the route through both ways...

18 Billion where the Crane is mining to the Jump Gate is 12km - then through GE IV is 320, and then from the gate in GE 1 to the PHQ is 80

Thus the way I would like my Crane to travel is 412km

The route they take is to the North Jump gate (178km), through Hatikvahs' (unknown), then APrime (Zero due to accelerator) then Flashpoint (168)
BHS IV (279), then BHS V (about 250), GE III (unknown) and then GE 1 - 360 from gate to PHQ.

The way it likes to travel - not including accelerator and two sectors of unknown totals 1,235 - more than 3 times the amount - and more if you count
the unknowns.

Thus, I think I will have to use the manual method a bit - I wonder if they get better when they level up

[SPiDER]

nope its a bug been reported countless times.......guess its a matter or priorities that and the pirate bug is the reason I gave up trying to play from the centre of the map.