Visited Star Filer...... is it Fit For Purpose?

Decided to do a tour of White Dwarfs close to the Galactic Centre in an area full of WD systems in economic routing. Now to stop heading back to revisited systems turned on the Visited Stars filter on galaxy map and applied 'not visited' and 'apply filter to route' then went back and plotted routes with White Dwarfs only.

Within a few hundred jumps I was bumping into previously visited systems regularly- some tagged from a previous journey I done a few years ago, some from possibly a day before and a few times amending a route up or down the plane and the plotter taking me back to the previous system. Checked the map a few times in case it had to go through a visited system or the route planner would fail but most times couldn't find any problem as there were loads of WDs in the area unvisited.

I presumed that it may not work in economic mode so at the end of my hunt changed to fastest route and within 5 jumps landed on a visited system!

To top it off I changed to M Stars only to get back to Anchorage 1k away and three jumps from destination seen 'none' instead of 'unknown' on panel and jumped to a visited M Star!!! Of all the stars around Stuemeae with visited star filter activated surely the plotter could have found another M star in the area!

So is the Visited Star Filter just not working or have I not set it correctly?..... I'm still looking in case I missed an 'activate' button somewhere!
 
Not sure if this is your problem or not, but keep in mind that FD said the map will "try" to plot a route taking your filters into account. Sometimes changing economy to fastest helps (as you've done), sometimes the map still can't find a route without hitting something on your filter. It's never been perfect, but will try to mostly avoid things you don't want to go to. Sometimes you just have to map short specific routes accounting for your desires before you hit a part of space where the map can plot longer routes complying with your filters again.
 
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