in this case it is showing that i have a foreign trade route that originates at one of my planets zilpha and ends at iridia while its possible for there to be a second planet named zilpha im sure thats not the case here im just going to load an autosave and see if i can catch the ship in action because i dont think it should be able to trade with me

agreed

thats one part of what i was trying to point out

now when i loaded the Previous Auto Save i found the ship they sent out

it had 6X environmental support providing 6.6 range each by my math thats 39.6 range

they had no range modifier techs that i could tell from trying to trade with them

but they did have adventursome for 15% and 1x trade resource for 5% so an additional 20% total 

bringing up the range of that freighter to 47.52 im not sure what the initial range was but it shouldnt be very big the problem is that ship was reporting a range of 89 hexes where are the other 40 hexes coming from 

considering my previous math of 39.6 hexes it looks like that ship is getting a free 100% bonus to ship range

yeah i looked at the aidefs and found bonus's for masscap, maintenence cost, battledmg vs human player. etc etc but no modifier for ship range by difficulty

Yeah i reduce the range modifier from crazy stupid high numbers to -0.2 at the start of my games