Move to Earth Trade Location

[chuckles73 (OP)]

There are currently four civilian freighters sitting on earth with the next order of "Move to Earth Trade Location".  They've been sitting there for a half a year.  The civilian colony ship is running regular trade runs, but all the freighters appear to be stuck.

A new freighter was built by a shipping line, it appeared at Earth, got the same order as the rest and is staying stuck.

I tried canceling their orders, but they just get a new "Move to Earth Trade Location" order, and then sit there.

Prior to getting stuck they were hauling infrastructure, and there's still 158 sitting on Earth.

I'm rather flummoxed as to why they're not doing anything.

Any ideas?

[sloanjh]

The only thing I can think of is that your civie freight capacity has outstripped your production capacity.  If you look at the trade tab, do you see things demanded at mars that are in supply at earth?

John

[chuckles73 (OP)]

Alpha Centauri-B III, not Mars, but that's beside the point.   

What you said may be the problem, I hadn't thought to look.     The only trade good is infrastructure.     Colony has a 1.  2/year surplus.     I think I'll need to do a civilian contract to move any more.   

I had forgot about the industrial "infrastructure" vs the trade good "infrastructure".     Looks like that's the issue, though.     If I stop shipping infrastructure there with my personal transport fleet, the colony ships will offload enough civilians to need more infrastructure at which point the civvie freighters will probably start running again.     Gotcha, thanks for the help!


Yup, that was the problem.  Also, setting up civilian contracts got them to start moving my produced infrastructure instead of their trade good.