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Posted by: Zerkuron
« on: January 11, 2012, 07:29:37 PM »

Problem loading Mineral could be caused by too short routes.  Mineral extraction has an increment time of 5 Days.  If the freighter ends the Tour within this five days it will show up this error message if cycled.
Posted by: Person012345
« on: November 17, 2011, 12:35:19 PM »

You can put multiple mass drivers on the same planet to send more minerals. I have 60 mass drivers sending 300,000 tons of minerals a year on one of mine. Add up all the minerals your colony is producing per year, then send enough mass drivers to chuck them all back (each mass driver contributes 5,000 mineral-flinging capacity). Don't forget to leave at least one on earth though.
Posted by: TheDeadlyShoe
« on: November 15, 2011, 06:23:50 AM »

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but I generally slow the ship down to allow for building up minerals at the source and the ship becomes a 50 yr old tramp freighter slowly plying its route.
If a planet mines duranium and a number of other minerals you can for example give it a Load Duranium when (x) order, and it will wait until duranium reaches that level then execute, then have a Load All Minerals order after it.  Conserves a lot of fuel that way!
Posted by: Zed 6
« on: November 15, 2011, 06:12:24 AM »

I find using cycle orders to be ok with short runs, but I generally slow the ship down to allow for building up minerals at the source and the ship becomes a 50 yr old tramp freighter slowly plying its route. It doesn't have the best or fastest equipment, but gets the job done.

As far as Luna to Earth. If the moon has minerals, plop a mass driver or 2 on it.
Posted by: Hawkeye
« on: November 15, 2011, 01:02:54 AM »

Be careful with the cycle order.
There are issues with it on very short runs, like when the order-set is finished inside a single production cycle. Personally I don´t use it, because of the danger of setting up a run and then forgetting it, even long after that run is useful. Therefore I use the repeat X order with 10 or 20 repeats.
Posted by: PenguinBuddha
« on: November 14, 2011, 02:19:42 PM »

Ive encountered this same issue.  Attempting to get minerals from Luna and transport to Earth.
Posted by: Yonder
« on: November 14, 2011, 10:18:37 AM »

Quote from: zazu on November 13, 2011, 01:38:32 AM
--- Hmm, I can only copy paste the order list a gazillion times but should I just click that repeat button 20 times? That should last a long time but I wonder if there's also some button to infinitely do that task list?
Right above the "Repeat Orders X Times" Button there should be a "Cycle Orders" checkbox. Checking that box will make the task group repeat their orders indefinitely.
Posted by: Mini
« on: November 14, 2011, 03:29:19 AM »

I would imaging that using a "load minerals when X available" order would have the same effect, although it may make the round trips a bit longer, and I'm not sure if there is an equivalent order for all minerals.
Posted by: blue emu
« on: November 13, 2011, 02:04:50 PM »

One possible way to avoid these "Cargo failed to load" spam is to first load a small amount of minerals from your main stockpile on Earth, carry that with you, and unload it at the colony in order to make sure that there will be something to load there:

Load Duranium on Earth x100
Unload All Minerals on Venus
Load All Minerals on Venus
Unload All Minerals on Mars
Load All Minerals on Mars
Unload All Minerals on Titan
Load All Minerals on Titan
Unload All Minerals on Earth
(Cycle Orders)
Posted by: zazu
« on: November 13, 2011, 06:22:27 AM »

Quote from: Thiosk on November 13, 2011, 05:24:21 AM
what the...

ok.  not sure then.  you don't happen to have "multiple colonies" on mars, and you're trying to pick the minerals up from the wrong one?  maybe?   i donno.  Thats weird.

Post screenshots?
It happened with my mining colonies on Titan, Mars and some asteroids.

What kind of screenshots would you like? The one with the error log?
Posted by: Thiosk
« on: November 13, 2011, 05:24:21 AM »

what the...

ok.  not sure then.  you don't happen to have "multiple colonies" on mars, and you're trying to pick the minerals up from the wrong one?  maybe?   i donno.  Thats weird.

Post screenshots?
Posted by: zazu
« on: November 13, 2011, 04:46:17 AM »

I checked the cargoholds several times

200000/200000

Also I checked if there were enough minerals being left, and yes there are... stockpiles of 800 while the mass driver sends about 44 every time

I'm really confused about this :(
Posted by: Mini
« on: November 13, 2011, 04:33:31 AM »

Also make sure that there are actually minerals being left over by the mass drivers.
Posted by: Hawkeye
« on: November 13, 2011, 04:27:28 AM »

Often this is the result of the freighters allready fully loaded. Check if the cargo holds are empty.
Posted by: zazu
« on: November 13, 2011, 02:54:01 AM »

Ajax class Freighter    34700 tons     246 Crew     486 BP      TCS 694  TH 1050  EM 0
1512 km/s     Armour 1-94     Shields 0-0     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control 1     PPV 0
Maintenance Capacity 9 MSP
Cargo 25000   Cargo Handling Multiplier 10   

Ion Engine E0.8 (7)    Power 150    Fuel Use 8%    Armour 0    Exp 1%
Fuel Capacity 100


And a bigger version

Condor class Freighter    68950 tons     467 Crew     902 BP      TCS 1379  TH 2100  EM 0
1522 km/s     Armour 1-149     Shields 0-0     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control 1     PPV 0
Maintenance Capacity 8 MSP
Cargo 50000   Cargo Handling Multiplier 15   

Ion Engine E0.8 (14)    Power 150    Fuel Use 8%    Armour 0    Exp 1%
Fuel Capacity 200

By the way these 2 were made by Aurora at start up