Hi there,
are there known bugs with the civilian shipping system? I experience loss of cargo every now and then but can't figure out the circumstances when it happens.
A ship on a mission should not be scrapped. Ships are scrapped only when they are idle and without cargo, I'm not 100% sure of the "without cargo" but I believe that it is so. If you have a transfer contract the items should not just "get lost." Back to the scrapped with cargo...I'm fairly sure I saw a mass scrapping of colony ships but only after they had dropped off their colonists then the companies scrapped them for new versions. I've seen clear indication of scrapping of ships that have recently dropped off cargo (as I can see the lack of a ship name in the list of completed jobs). It is true; however, that I don't monitor the tranfer of civillian goods so the odd load of trade goods or infrastructure might vanish without me noticing. I've never seen one of my contracted installations vanish.