Is there any way to stop my civilans from snatching up all my infrastructure?

[sloanjh]

I don't know what to tell you. The infrastructure I was building was turning up on mars

Are you absolutely sure that it was infrastructure you were building, i.e. if you stop building infrastructure does your stock go down?  The civie sector makes its own infrastructure as well, so just because civies are loading infrastructure at Earth and dumping it at Mars it doesn't mean it's the infrastructure you built.

If you're sure that they really were grabbing your infrastructure, then you should log this as a bug in the official bugs thread.  As someone already mentioned, what you're describing isn't supposed to happen....

John

[joeclark77]

What he said, above.

For what it's worth, I have sometimes let Luna and Mars grow to 100M+ population before terraforming them, just for the free infrastructure.  Once you terraform them, you can steal the civilians' infrastructure, and there'll be quite a lot of it at that point.

Civilians cannot steal your infrastructure, though.

[happy2pester (OP)]

I think i actually solved what happened here.

To move my infrastructure, i use a block of three orders

Load Infrastructure Earth
Unload Infrastructure (Wherever)
Refuel at Earth

I then use the repeat orders X times feature

What I think I must have done, is I clicked the "Repeat" button more than once. My freighters attempt to move 50 infrastructure per order set. I tell them to repeat that 19 times for a full 1000 infrastructure. But if I click the button again, they try to repeat the 1000-infrasturcture order set a further 19 times, for a total of 20000 infrastructure.

I never realized what was happening because the list of orders went down into a long scroll list, and I wasn't going to sit and count every single line, so I just assumed it was correct

[Erik L]

I think i actually solved what happened here.

To move my infrastructure, i use a block of three orders

Load Infrastructure Earth
Unload Infrastructure (Wherever)
Refuel at Earth

I then use the repeat orders X times feature

What I think I must have done, is I clicked the "Repeat" button more than once. My freighters attempt to move 50 infrastructure per order set. I tell them to repeat that 19 times for a full 1000 infrastructure. But if I click the button again, they try to repeat the 1000-infrasturcture order set a further 19 times, for a total of 20000 infrastructure.

I never realized what was happening because the list of orders went down into a long scroll list, and I wasn't going to sit and count every single line, so I just assumed it was correct

Repeat orders takes everything in the order list, and duplicates it x number of times.

I find cycle orders to be more useful. I can always cancel the orders when needed.

[happy2pester (OP)]

I like to set it up for a specified amount, rather than monitor until satisfied