Multiple NPC-piloted player ships unresponsive - solved (possibly mod related)

[jugato]

• Version 7.0 HF1, English
• No mods
• Terran Cadet game start
• DxDiag
• vulcaninfo

Several of my player ships have become unresponsive. I didn't do an exhaustive check of all my owned ships, but quickly found multiple problems. To see the problem:

• Load Save Game
• Examine some or all of: Baldric IQX-081, Baldric QCW-819, Baldric XBU-231, Baldric SPD-371, Baldric XNI-411, Bolo CDL-986, Bolo HZN-986
• Let game run for a period of time. I let it run for more than 40 minutes while I just stayed stationary on the base.
• Re-examine the above list of ships and notice that none of them changed state.

It doesn't seem to matter if I am out of sector, in sector, or teleport directly onto the ships. They remain stuck. Some of these ships can be fixed by swapping the pilot to a new one, but I have not been able to figure out how to fix the ones stuck in critical operations (i.e., [un]docking). I don't know how long they have been like this. I just happened to notice one and then looked for more. This is a new playthrough I started after the release of 7.0 to the non-Beta channel. I don't recall encountering this error in 6.x releases.

[myztkl-kev]

not sure if my problem is related but I have an issue with my mining ships sometimes just seemingly doing nothing, they just kind of wobble back and forth while flying forward really slowly, but if I remove their orders and they get new orders from the station manager, that usually fixes them but sometimes they will continue to fly really slow like they are dodging asteroids on auto-pilot until a certain point and then will fly normally again. seems like once a day I need to remove all their orders

[jugato]

The ships I'm having problems with do not move at all. They are stationary. Giving them orders doesn't fix it. The only thing I've found that fixes it is to swap a pilot, which you can't always do. For the ships that are in a critical state, I tried selling them to a wharf. The ownership changed, but the ships are still stuck unmoving outside my dock and, if I'm in sector, cause collisions with other ships trying to dock.

[jugato]

I noticed a few of my saves were flagged as modified even though I removed all mods before starting this playthrough. I deleted the few modified-flagged saves, losing about a day's worth of play, and loaded the most recent before that. All my ships seem to be fine in the older save, so I'm continuing from that one.