Ok, I encounter this all the time, and it seems so basic a thing that I keep forgetting it happens.

If you are at point A, and you click to go to point B, there are obviously 2 paths, you either adjust your position on the X axis, and then move along the Y axis to get to your target or vice versa.

Could you PLEASE put it in the pathing decision tree to take whichever of those two paths keeps you out of opponents territory??????!?!?!?!

Every time I am near opposition territory and click a position that isn't a straight line, the ship makes a B-line into my opponent's space.

I hate offending my opposition unintentionally. When I offend them, I want it to be intentional.