I understand that Geologic survey teams can take a closer look at planets, moons, et al and possibly find more minerals than the orbital geo scans detected.
In my first game I set up a team with a rating of 165 using the best survey officers I could find.
I ferried them from Luna to Mercury and then on to a couple of asteroids. They didn't find much but I did get a couple messages saying they'd improved their skills.
Somewhere along the line I lost them!
Although I'm almost certain that I only placed them on bodies marked for colonization they started showing a blank location field so I couldn't disband the team. I could reassign them to other roles but when I tried to reform a team with them afterward the blank location came back.
This time around (second game) I've formed a team directly on the colony I wanted to survey. They found nothing on their first colony.
I disbanded the team and reformed it on the second colony. Again nothing
Lather/rinse/repeat five times so far. Nothing additional found. No skill advances.
My questions...
1) Any idea how to "recover" my lost team from game 1? I would like to continue it a bit.
2) Is my forming/disbanding/reforming the team causing them to not gain experience and become better? Or has my my second strategy just been unlucky so far?
Suggestions?