Hi Steve
Yes, I tried it four times, on the fourth attempt the freighters picked up the minerals and since then it has been no problem. Adam mentioned it could be that there were no minerals to pick up but the round trip is 3-4 months (I have very slow ships), and I had thought there would be something there in 3-4 months.
My next problem(s) are:
(1) if I try to transport 1 mass driver the freighters just will not load it. However if I do not check max amount to load its fine, but all my mass drivers depart for points west!
(2) I have through carelessness (not checking the correct conditional order) allowed several survey ships to run out of fuel. I tried sending a fleet out and absorbing the stranded ship(s) into it and the equalise fuel. This appears to work, but I still have the name of the ship (Task group) left on the system display. Is there any way you can delete a formation absorbed by another automatically? Assume I have to do this manually at present?
Regards
Ian