I remember them doing this back in X3TC (because I worked very hard to build up the sectors around Aldrin by taking tons of station-building missions). Basically, once I started creating more factories in this region (Segaris, Megnir, Aldrin, Aldrin 2, Althes) through station-building missions, the game starts spawning a lot of additional Aldrin trading ships. The problem is, these ships just kinda sat around the gates, not going anywhere or doing anything.
It looks like this behavior persists in X3AP as well. It's not on the same level of bad as the Billion Barracuda bug, but I am wondering if it's related...
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Notice how they even crowd around the gates in Segaris, even though there are no stations there to even trade with...
[X3TC/X3AP] Aldrin NPC Traders Crowd Around Gates. Abnormal behavior?
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Happens due to IS collision avoidance but will resolve itself if you go OOS for some time.
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