Are Combined Exploration crafts still viable as they where before the Event bug got fixed?
A Explorer Craft that has Geo and Grav Survey equipment with corresponding Standing Orders will, just as it did before, start a Grav Survey Scan(Secondary Standing Order) after it cant find a suitable Planet for the Geo Survey (Primary Standing Order). As of 1.8.0, this ship will throw an Event every turn that it cant execute its Primary Standing Order though as soon as it finished the Geo Surveys in the system. For the Survey Fleet to stop interrupting the Autoturns every turn, the only Workarounds i see are:
-Split Geo and Grav Survey between different Fleets
-Change the Primary Standing Order on demand (Change the Primary Order to Grav after you completed the Geo Survey)
I actually liked the idea of the Exploration cruiser that could do both tasks and thought at first that the missing Autoturn interruptions because of the Geo/Grav Surveys that cant find a target are an advancement over the VB6 version
Fleets where more or less automatically Surveying the star systems and only had to be Managed when their Deployment timer or MSP neared the class Limits.