I love my tugs, they've been very useful, even if it takes them half a year to haul my JCS to a jump point. I also use them to retrieve ships that have run out of fuel for one reason or another.
This has just happened to my aging Cargo taskforce (they still use the first nuclear engine, and I'm now on Magneto-Plasma), and I've found that I can't simply tractor the ship and bring it to a colony. Although it registers as being in tractor, because it's part of the same task group as the tug, it can't follow the order "Release Tractored Ships at Earth." This order apparently supersedes the tractor and influence of the tug.
1. Without ordering a fuel equalisation between the tug and the cargo ship, is there a way to get it back to Earth?
2. I wanna get rid of these danged slow ships. I've marked them obsolete, and I have better ones. (How) can I do this?
Thanks in advance! (And also for putting up with my myriad issues/questions over the past few days!)