Pathfinding has been broken since Crusade. It used to work fine before that.

There was a time when you could pick a destination, and the path the ship would follow would actually be the path that was indicated. Now, you don't have a clue-- it seems to be recalculated after every tile moved. And it might be several tiles away from the indicated path.

You can no longer depend on a ship following the path and this can be a major problem when trying to avoid known locations of pirates and/or space monsters, or other enemies, too.

I wish SD would fix what used to work well before it got broken. I would much rather have a game that works properly than to have a bunch of new "features" that work in a half-assed manner.

Sorry for the rant, but these numerous oversights are getting to me.

Save game is helpful because it's not obvious what is happening in the hidden tiles.  

Just my 2 cents here... the initial path shown is not necessarily the path the ship takes.  It is recalculated every tile-movement.  Even if the path is shown as such, which I have seen, the ship will often, on actual movement, use the hyperlane correctly.  But only sometimes, not always.

I have been working on this, but I have to be careful to not increase turn times, so it's taking some time.

Shipyards sometimes I have to be careful because on auto moves where there are asteroids around the shipyard sometimes will not move, but s itch back, and forth.

Ive trying to manually move the shipyard for so long to avoid this I don't have a saved game. This requires a lot of asteroids to be just right to pull this off. This is a rare occurrence. Sorry no saved games.