Manual Moving ships causes some to want to jump to nearby explored nodes

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After successfully thwarting off attacks by pirates or CPU opponents, I found that sometimes if I went to manually move my remaining ships into a custom formation in the gravity well, that some ships would attempt to make a jump to a random planet in my empire (typically a nearby node, sometimes back to my capital). This happened maybe 10 times over the course of my game. I would randomly stop their actions, try again, and it would repeat itself. After a couple of minutes they would act normal again when moved manually to different parts of the gravity well. And I was close enough viewing the gravity well that I definitely didn't do it by accident by clicking a planet on the empire tree.
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
This happens to me a few times as well, me theory is that if you accidentally click on an area out side of the gravity well the ship will jump using the nearest phase lane. Not sure thought, and sometime it did automatically order a sequence of jump through a couple of planets.
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
Have had the bug too, most of the time in the gravity well of a star.
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
I'm under the impression that the gravity well of a Star is considered a "no go" zone, except for ships arriving "at the Star" instead of "at a particular place inside the Stars gravity well".
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
It could also be the issue of moving the camera around while a ship is selected and accidentally clicking once to issue a move order but I'm not totally sure. I really like to move the camera around during battles, it could just be overzealous right clicking - haha
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
man i have really got to stop pushing down with that middle finger.

now where is that battleship off to
Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
I get it too, I it generally happens when your zoomed out a bit, and also around stars.

I couldn't move around the stars graivity well at all because of it. :/
Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top
Yea ive noticed this bug. the bug also occurs when you have a spread out bunch of ships in the Sun starsystem and you order them to collect at a position within the grav well. Phaseline waypoints suddenly appear and ships tart to hypersspace away.