So question regarding the automated exploration.
I've noticed that with naval units (possible something similar happens with land units too, but with embarkation it woupd be less noticeable) that if you hit the automated explore, it often behaves weirdly.
The ship will make a beeline for the coast and then get stuck. If I move it away, often it will just go straight back. The coast only takes up ~25% of the possible directions, but these seems to happen somewhere near 70% of the time. If it happens omce, I'd say it will happen again the second try abiut 85% of the time, so I don't think it is just randomly choosing the coast and bad programming that it avoid it? Doesn't seem to happen if you get past the first turn. On Earth True Start, I had a city with a Harbour on the river seperating Africa from Saudi Arabia and I was flooding the world with ships. 90% of the time auto explore would send the ship north and trap the ship behinf the Nile, which is not traversable, really annoying.
Any ideas as to how i can prevent it happening or at least fix it reliably? Beyond not using auto explore, of course!