Stock Mules Can't Jump.
Yes, yes, I have a thing for title parody...
If you check your Mule stats in the Ship Stats page, you'll notice that there's an "Energy cost for jumpnode travel" that might exceed the "Warp capacitor bank storage". For my stock Mule, respectively 333,333MJ and 270,833MJ.
This means that you have to increase your storage, but how? You have capacitors and SPEC capacitors, but warp? As not very intuitive as it is, your warp storage is handled by the SPEC capacitors, and your Mule has probably a level 1, which is not enough.
So I added (unlike standard ones, you can have more than 1 SPEC capacitors) a level 5 (or 6? meh, I've already forgotten) and reached the required level; driving the Mule to a jump point made the J light flash, and the jump went fine.
As for the Nav Comp, I don't want to think it's buggy, so I'll believe it's ancient technology we don't have a full grasp on yet
If you search for a nearby sector as a target, it works fine (while being in sector Ingatwa I made a search for nearby sector Bribtzkaber and it showed the path to it); the built-in target search path works fine as well, with the added benefit of updating everytime you target a different system, because the path destination is set to "Target system".
Sometimes I have successfully located systems with specific resources, but now I'm failing again; I know there's an Outpost in a nearby system, but if I search with criteria = CONTAINS(Outpost) (or outpost as well), although the computer won't complain with a "path not found" message, it won't show any path related to that search.
OWNEDBY(andolian) works fine, showing a path of 2 jumps to Raxis. Shaper are quite a few jumps further, but the path is still correctly shown.
Mind the all lowercase faction name: Andolian and Shaper won't work; Klk'k must be written klkk, LIHW, lihw L.I.H.W. and l.i.h.w. give "path not found" but they might just be too far from me to compute a path; other factions can't be found either.
Now that I think of it, maybe it's just because I've never visited systems owned by those factions so far...
On a side note, the Up and Down in the main screen of the Nav Comp seem to do nothing, I suppose they were meant to change the path order in the list, but after all what would the point be? paths can be shown together and they're not layered somehow. The show toggle on the paths works perfectly so we can choose which routes to see. Maybe the Up and Down buttons are a forethought that never got implemented and can just be removed?
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