Introversion

I am new to this game and keep on having problems with multiwinians path finding solutions when I direct them somewhere with shield near, in the way, often instead of going round they will just walk up to the shield, walk back a bit and then get stuck in kind of a loop doing this infront of the shield, usually I notice it and send them a command to move back again and manually direct them around but at other times this can be really frustrating!

You can see the path they will take before you click. It's well-known that path finding is bad in this game, but you can at least see it coming.

I think the phrase you're looking for here is: "it's not a bug, it's a feature."

No, it's "Won't fix"