Posted by: joeclark77
« on: July 07, 2013, 04:50:11 AM »Something that wasn't mentioned on this thread yet: designate the ship as a "tanker" in ship design. That allows you to set other ships to refuel at the sorium harvester fleet, and gives you the "unload 90% fuel" order.
In my most recent game, the best sorium access happens to be at Jupiter, so I simply unload my fuel at Ganymede instead of hauling it to Earth. That doesn't require any tankers, doesn't require tractor-beam-equipped tugs to place the sorium harvesters, and doesn't incur significant downtime for the harvesters. If I want fuel at Earth I'll need to use tankers but so far that isn't much of an issue as Earth is still refining mineral sorium.
In my most recent game, the best sorium access happens to be at Jupiter, so I simply unload my fuel at Ganymede instead of hauling it to Earth. That doesn't require any tankers, doesn't require tractor-beam-equipped tugs to place the sorium harvesters, and doesn't incur significant downtime for the harvesters. If I want fuel at Earth I'll need to use tankers but so far that isn't much of an issue as Earth is still refining mineral sorium.