I am new to this game so please bear over with my stupid questions.
I was told that I can buy fuel from the civilians from the fleet screen by ticking the TG box. But if I send a tanker to one of the civilian fuel harvesters, I get an error. What I can do is go to the ships screen and manually steal buy the fuel in the miscellaneous tab. As it turns out, this is not stealing, because I can see in the economics tab that I actually pay for it. This is a lot of micro, I have been low on fuel for years, and it will take several years before my new fuel harvesters will change this situation. Is there an easier way with less scrolling and clicking?
Also I have heard that you can buy minerals from the civilians. But how? Just loading all minerals from the civilian colony doesn't do the job, and when I check the ships screen, there seems to be no way to manually handle the cargo. Perhaps they have nothing to sell? If they don't, how do I see this? And if they do, how do I lay my hands on it?
Thanks