Explorer Automation is sorta broken

[corwin90]

Or, put a different way, one explorer is the same as 10,000 explorers while using certain forms of automation.

I built eight explorer and told them to explore the sector. Then, I set the game to 4x speed and watched to see what they would do:

1. All 8 went to the same system and explored it, then
2. All 8 went to a different system (all 8 to the same system) and explorer it.
etc, etc

Has anyone else observed this rather odd (and rather useless) behavior?

[Fishers of Men]

This was an old problem with the AI that was improved with the Shadows Expansion. Because I don't automate my explorers, I sometimes assign them different sectors, I have not observed this behavior.

[Icemania]

corwin90, yes I've seen variations of this, where multiple Explorers follow each other to exactly the same system.