[#3836] Station Miners not Consistently Honoring Blacklist - WAI

[Raider480]

Game version is the stable 7.50 release, in English. Platform is Steam.
This is not a modded save.
My game start was "Custom Game Editor (Budgeted)". It did not incur a ***modified*** game penalty.

I'll go ahead and re-post what I described in another thread:

Maybe I'll have better luck. I can make a separate post if that's better, but this seems close to my current problem.
I'm experiencing a similar kind of issue. It also seems like this might be exacerbated by trade orders drying up, although in my case more from low demand than low supply.

I have a series of factories in Ore Belt, with a sector activities blacklist set to only allow activities in Adventure's Promise. This was working alright at first, with miners heading that one sector over to mine, as expected.
Now the behavior has started to become unstable. Some miners just ignore the blacklist, queue and execute on an order to automine directly in Ore Belt. Manually deleting that order results in it coming back again to mine in the wrong system. The resources it wants are even still available in the whitelisted Adventure's Promise, so it should (?) have no reason I can see to insist on staying in Ore Belt. The station's manager has enough stars to go the next system over, and some of the miners are still doing that.

I have tried setting the blacklist behavior just on the individual miners, just on the station commander, and on both, with no success in any config (re)achieving the desired behavior consistently. I also tried adding a travel blacklist on top of the activities blacklist, which didn't help either. Neither did changing the activities whitelist to a blacklist for everywhere except Adventure's Promise.

My save is not modded, although I do have all of the DLC. This is on the stable 7.50 release, no beta.

I have no clue what a typical hosting site would be, so let me know if this doesn't work.

• Here is a link to a save showing the issue in action: https://limewire.com/d/GlYpI#YqM5S9hxey

• I doubt it is really relevant in this situation, but dxdiag: https://limewire.com/d/oXSb4#25B49hL1DH

[ManuelEgosoft]

Hey Raider, thanks for your report.

I just took a look and can confirm your observation. Nevertheless, this is work as intended. Because of the reusable nature of a blacklist, you can set it up like that. But in your case, 'Ore Belt', the one sector your station is in, will always be allowed for ships belonging to stations in that sector. Otherwise, the station's subordinates weren't able to perform activities with their commanding station itself.

I could imagine us adding ways to explain this better to the player, but there will be no 'fix'.

On a side note: I would remove the blacklist prohibiting traveling through 'Ore Belt' for subordinates that originates in this sector. Most of the time this is ignored anyway, because either your ship is not traveling through the sector but performing an activity inside it (like offloading your gas at your station) OR you are already inside 'Ore Belt' (because you just offloaded your gas) and try to exit the sector. In all other cases, your ships will try to avoid 'Ore Belt' which isn't easily possible always.