Posted by: davidb86
« on: May 30, 2014, 03:21:45 PM »There are two methods.
One is to reduce the speed of your freighter so that it matches the accumulation of minerals and use the cycle orders. This has the same effect as waiting for a full cargo bay. I use this method with sorium harvesters. As the production facilities increase either through additional mines or increased technology you can increase the speed of the ship. The other is to send the ship and manually wait to fill it.
The best way to survey is dedicated ships that can be told to survey a system until they run out of targets. The fighter method is more efficient, but requires more player interaction to accomplish.
I have not had that happen in my game (6.21), perhaps something changed.
If you have auto assign officers on, then all you have to do is assign a Task force commander. The rest of the task force staff positions will be filled automatically. Each position has an associated skill. All Ships assigned to the task force and in the same system as the Commander will get a bonus based on the skills of the officers in the staff positions. In addition, each of the staff officers has a normal chance to increase his position skill. The wiki recommend using a #4 or higher commander as staff positions are given to officers at least one grade below the commander.
From the wiki
Assigning a staff position to naval officers
Go to the ranks and Seniority box in the upper left and select Naval Officers. Select a #4 officer or higher.
Then go to the Potential Assignments area, and select the staff officers area.
Here you can assign staff positions, these officers grant a bonus to the all ships assigned to the task force in the same system as the task force HQ.
Select your #4 rating officer or higher and the position you want him in, and then in the lower right click assign.
One is to reduce the speed of your freighter so that it matches the accumulation of minerals and use the cycle orders. This has the same effect as waiting for a full cargo bay. I use this method with sorium harvesters. As the production facilities increase either through additional mines or increased technology you can increase the speed of the ship. The other is to send the ship and manually wait to fill it.
The best way to survey is dedicated ships that can be told to survey a system until they run out of targets. The fighter method is more efficient, but requires more player interaction to accomplish.
I have not had that happen in my game (6.21), perhaps something changed.
If you have auto assign officers on, then all you have to do is assign a Task force commander. The rest of the task force staff positions will be filled automatically. Each position has an associated skill. All Ships assigned to the task force and in the same system as the Commander will get a bonus based on the skills of the officers in the staff positions. In addition, each of the staff officers has a normal chance to increase his position skill. The wiki recommend using a #4 or higher commander as staff positions are given to officers at least one grade below the commander.
From the wiki
Assigning a staff position to naval officers
Go to the ranks and Seniority box in the upper left and select Naval Officers. Select a #4 officer or higher.
Then go to the Potential Assignments area, and select the staff officers area.
Here you can assign staff positions, these officers grant a bonus to the all ships assigned to the task force in the same system as the task force HQ.
Select your #4 rating officer or higher and the position you want him in, and then in the lower right click assign.