Intended Function or Bug? - improved in upcoming update

[jasii100]

When using a station manager and setting minimum jump refuel at 30 jumps (enough to go out up to 15 sectors and jump back home with cargo), I'm finding my TS station tenders will not go out past sectors they could not safely travel through (as opposed to jumping past).

For example, I have a shield factory using Station Manager in Heart of LIght, and there are multiple Cahoona Bakeries in Black Hole Sun full of Cahoonas. My TS is docked at my shield factory with refuel set to 30 sectors, there are plenty of Energy Cells in stock and the station manager command console is set to allow up to 15 sectors away for buying (Black Hole Sun is 13 sectors away). But the TS will simply not go Black Hole Sun. And if I try to use the "Buy Ware" command with my docked TS, any station showing in the "Buy Ware" dialog box which is beyond a pirate or Xenon sector shows red and cannot be selected. But the TS will automatically go to a Cahoona Bakery in Aladna's Hill without any problems.

Bug or working as designed?

[Thandrall]

Are the sectors blacklisted? If so they won't go though them for obvious reasons, though I'm not sure if jumping would take that into effect.

[Cycrow]

Do you have a save game i can look at ?

[Cycrow]

so i had a quick check, Black Hole Sun is actually 16 jumps away from Light of Heart, not 13.

As for the Buy Ware, do you have auto jump enabled, as it wont use a jumpdrive unless you do

[jasii100]

Do you have a save game i can look at ?

Please be aware, this game was started on version 1.0 as soon as it was available through Steam. I switched midstream to Beta 1.1 but did not start a new game. Perhaps this is why I'm seeing this strange behavior...???

Just turn on SETA and watch the 1MJ Shield factory in Light of Heart. The Mistral assigned to it will never jump beyond an enemy sector to get wares but will occasionally jump to closer sectors with no enemies in between. I suspect the other factory TS tenders are behaving the same, but haven't watched them as closely.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PCKQMr ... sp=sharing

[Cycrow]

There should be some improvements to the station manager in 1.2
with better handling of the blacklist