Can you interupt ship orders?

[Marked]

Could be. I know that when I want to change planets my small harvesters are routing back and forth too, I have to tap the little brown square next to the planet, select one of the auto pilot ships and tell it to cancel automation. I then go do something else and check back on it and it will be off auto.

Now thinking about it this might be because the ship has reached last planet route destination. If thats the case then the above would hold true and you wouldn't be able to stop a probe in transit. I'll have to start playing with my probes and see what happens.

[Tsagoth]

Part of the problem is the delay before the ship processes your order. After the ship enters orbit of wherever it is, it takes some time before it is ready to jump to the next leg of the trip. If you cancel the order to move, the ship won't actually process the order until it is ready to move, and that could be almost a minute or more, depending on the class of ship and how fast it moves.