cannot drop off geoteam

[nukefromorbit (OP)]

I created a geoteam, loaded them on a ship, and transported them to a comet but I cannot drop them off.   As a matter of fact in the Task Groups window I can select any destination (planet, moon, asteroid, comet), move to, drop off team, double-click the team, but it is never added to "Plotted Move" and the team is never dropped off.   How do I drop off a team?

[Erik L]

I created a geoteam, loaded them on a ship, and transported them to a comet but I cannot drop them off.   As a matter of fact in the Task Groups window I can select any destination (planet, moon, asteroid, comet), move to, drop off team, double-click the team, but it is never added to "Plotted Move" and the team is never dropped off.   How do I drop off a team?

Click Add Move.

[nukefromorbit (OP)]

Thanks for the quick response!

[Erik L]

The Add Move button is required for anything that pops up that sub-box... Commanders, teams, ground units... I think there's a couple others.

[vonduus]

Be aware, you cannot land a team if the gravity is below 0.1, I believe.

Related question: I could not get my asteroid miners to harvest on one of my asteroids. They worked on the previous site, and they worked again after I abandoned this asteroid and went on to richer pastures. I tried all the solutions and workarounds I could find here and on the wiki, but to no avail. The gravity on this asteroid was below 0.1, so I take it that this was the reason that no mining took place. Somehow I had the impression though, that this was what asteroid miners really are for: Harvesting resources where no auto-mine can get a foothold.

Am I correct in assuming that an asteroid with gravity below 0.1 will be inaccessible for mining?

[Falcon]

I think you can drop off a team anywhere.

[vonduus]

I think you can drop off a team anywhere.

Yes, you are right, I just did a test and landed a geoteam on a 0.0026 gravity asteroid. I apologize for the misinformation.

Wonder why I couldn't get my asteroid miner to work, then?

[Jikor]

When you moved them away and then back does it show up as orbital miners?

[Jumpp]

Yes, you are right, I just did a test and landed a geoteam on a 0.0026 gravity asteroid. I apologize for the misinformation.

Wonder why I couldn't get my asteroid miner to work, then?

You can drop the team before creating a colony on the site.  Their arrival turns it into a colony.

However, so far as I'm aware, the arrival of an asteroid miner doesn't automatically create a colony.  Is it possible that you sent the miner to a body that didn't have a colony on?  In that case, it'd have no place to deposit the minerals it's digging up, and it wouldn't operate.