Possible cause of lag?

[Number One]

In this video you can see the science ship receiving and cancelling its orders in quick succession, this is by no means an isolated incident as i could go to practically any stationary science ship and i would observe the same behavior in this game at least.

I imagine if 100+ ships are all doing this constantly it would add up...

 

[Mithkabob]

There is something up with science ship auto exploration. I had a few dozen systems that never received auto explore ships even when they stopped and complained there weren't any systems left to explore, despite being safe and reachable. I've also seen them use unexplored wormholes to travel to new systems to explore, without ever exploring the wormhole.