Description:

Auto-explore should be a way to explore without micro-managing the fleet. But it is useless if fleets can sink on exploration.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Set ship on auto-explore

2. Let turns go by

3. See you ship destroyed

Reproducibility:

4/5

Expected Behavior:

Ships on auto-explore should remain in safe waters (except maybe occasionally for one turn).

Yes, that's quite irritating :) I actually didn't use ships at all, because there are not so many tiles they can travel through... 

Maybe if ships could be used as some kinds of water outposts, they would be more useful. Or maybe I didn't use them properly.

Indeed. Also, the one time i tried to attack a mercenary fleet, during several separate turns, i never got the battle to start for some reason.