Beta 3 .61 Cannot send survey ship to anomaly in nebula

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in the following screenshot, I have a survey ship in a nebula, next to an artifact that is also in the nebula.  The artifact is pointed to by the right hand arrow.  If I have the ship selected, and RMB on the artifact to send the ship there, a course is instead plotted to a spot two tiles away in a northwest direction, where the left arrow points.  I've tried this on several turns, and watched the ship move and left up two tiles when it should be moving one tile right.  On a couple of tries I've gotten the green path to get set on the artifact, but when the ship moves it still moves up left. 

Note that this is right on the edge of the map, so that might have something to do with the problem.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

ive experienced this as well for some reason the ship wants to go to the centre of the dustcloud/nebula before going to the anomaly if you let it travel to that point and then select the anomaly it will travel as intended however if you have insufficient moves to travel from the centre to the anomaly in one turn it will try and go to the centre again

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

That seems like it does describe my problem.  What with the slowdown effect of the nebula, my ship can't make it all the way to the artifact in one turn.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Have you gone to the opposite side of the artifact and tried from there?

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Yes, I did try that.  It didn't matter where I started from, it always went to the middle of the nebula. 

I researched enough to get more movement points and tried @androshalforc's suggestion, and the ship was able to go from the middle of the nebula to the artifact in one move and collect the artifact.

Reply #5 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Thanks for posting, could I get a save file of this?

Link to forums for explanation:
https://forums.galciv3.com/452855/page/1/

Link to support tool:
http://sd.stardock.com/Support/supportToolTest/SDSupportTool.exe

 

Reply #6 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Actually you can solve this problem by going close to the artifact and then let the ship to "auto survey" mode, and it will collect automatically by the next turn. After that you can get the control back of your ship. ;)

Reply #7 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Since I never use the auto explore or auto survey features I wouldn't have thought of that, so thanks.

Reply #8 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Me neither, but this time I tried to find a solution and so it worked. Also when the artifact was inside the nebula, the only way I could get it is to "auto survey". Until a fix this is your only option.