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Transporting Minerals
« on: November 13, 2011, 01:25:26 AM »
I've been trying to get my Capital fully stocked with minerals but these mass drivers only help a little... I've been trying to set cargo tasks but for some reason they can't pick up minerals? Anyone have a way to make this easier/automate it?
 

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Re: Transporting Minerals
« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2011, 01:33:26 AM »
The repeat orders checkbox in your task force orders screen is your friend here. Your cargo ships will likely not be bringing full loads but they should get it done. Let's assume you have 3 mining operations you'd like to gather from, so you create a cargo group and you'd set up orders like so.

Load all minerals site 1
Load all minerals site 2
Load all minerals site 3
Unload all minerals Earth
Refuel from Earth

With the repeat orders checkbox checked then your group will immediately start over with the first order again. Obviously site 1,2 etc get replaced with your actual mining colonies, Luna, Titan, Asteroid 47, or whatever.

The only issue here is if your ships run out of fuel, hence the Refuel order, or if they get too full on their route, in which case they will start canceling orders, if that happens either add more cargo ships to the group, or reduce the route.
Hope that helps.
 

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Re: Transporting Minerals
« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2011, 01:38:32 AM »
Cool!

I'll try it out

I got pretty big cargo TG's so I can add a few colonies I hope

--- Hmm, I can only copy paste the order list a gazillion times but should I just click that repeat button 20 times? That should last a long time but I wonder if there's also some button to infinitely do that task list?
« Last Edit: November 13, 2011, 01:56:41 AM by zazu »
 

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Re: Transporting Minerals
« Reply #3 on: November 13, 2011, 02:06:40 AM »
Ugh, again the same problem... Cargo bla bla failed to load all minerals from mars

I really don't know what causes it, Mars has plenty of stockpiles left...

---I tried several different colonies but the cargo won't take it!
« Last Edit: November 13, 2011, 02:20:41 AM by zazu »
 

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Re: Transporting Minerals
« Reply #4 on: November 13, 2011, 02:39:43 AM »
Ugh, again the same problem... Cargo bla bla failed to load all minerals from mars

I really don't know what causes it, Mars has plenty of stockpiles left...

---I tried several different colonies but the cargo won't take it!


Maybe post your freighter design.

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Re: Transporting Minerals
« Reply #5 on: November 13, 2011, 02:54:01 AM »
Ajax class Freighter    34700 tons     246 Crew     486 BP      TCS 694  TH 1050  EM 0
1512 km/s     Armour 1-94     Shields 0-0     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control 1     PPV 0
Maintenance Capacity 9 MSP
Cargo 25000   Cargo Handling Multiplier 10   

Ion Engine E0.8 (7)    Power 150    Fuel Use 8%    Armour 0    Exp 1%
Fuel Capacity 100


And a bigger version

Condor class Freighter    68950 tons     467 Crew     902 BP      TCS 1379  TH 2100  EM 0
1522 km/s     Armour 1-149     Shields 0-0     Sensors 1/1/0/0     Damage Control 1     PPV 0
Maintenance Capacity 8 MSP
Cargo 50000   Cargo Handling Multiplier 15   

Ion Engine E0.8 (14)    Power 150    Fuel Use 8%    Armour 0    Exp 1%
Fuel Capacity 200

By the way these 2 were made by Aurora at start up
 

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Re: Transporting Minerals
« Reply #6 on: November 13, 2011, 04:27:28 AM »
Often this is the result of the freighters allready fully loaded. Check if the cargo holds are empty.
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Re: Transporting Minerals
« Reply #7 on: November 13, 2011, 04:33:31 AM »
Also make sure that there are actually minerals being left over by the mass drivers.
 

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Re: Transporting Minerals
« Reply #8 on: November 13, 2011, 04:46:17 AM »
I checked the cargoholds several times

200000/200000

Also I checked if there were enough minerals being left, and yes there are... stockpiles of 800 while the mass driver sends about 44 every time

I'm really confused about this :(
 

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Re: Transporting Minerals
« Reply #9 on: November 13, 2011, 05:24:21 AM »
what the...

ok.  not sure then.  you don't happen to have "multiple colonies" on mars, and you're trying to pick the minerals up from the wrong one?  maybe?   i donno.  Thats weird.

Post screenshots?
 

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Re: Transporting Minerals
« Reply #10 on: November 13, 2011, 06:22:27 AM »
what the...

ok.  not sure then.  you don't happen to have "multiple colonies" on mars, and you're trying to pick the minerals up from the wrong one?  maybe?   i donno.  Thats weird.

Post screenshots?
It happened with my mining colonies on Titan, Mars and some asteroids.

What kind of screenshots would you like? The one with the error log?
 

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Re: Transporting Minerals
« Reply #11 on: November 13, 2011, 02:04:50 PM »
One possible way to avoid these "Cargo failed to load" spam is to first load a small amount of minerals from your main stockpile on Earth, carry that with you, and unload it at the colony in order to make sure that there will be something to load there:

Load Duranium on Earth x100
Unload All Minerals on Venus
Load All Minerals on Venus
Unload All Minerals on Mars
Load All Minerals on Mars
Unload All Minerals on Titan
Load All Minerals on Titan
Unload All Minerals on Earth
(Cycle Orders)
 

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Re: Transporting Minerals
« Reply #12 on: November 14, 2011, 03:29:19 AM »
I would imaging that using a "load minerals when X available" order would have the same effect, although it may make the round trips a bit longer, and I'm not sure if there is an equivalent order for all minerals.
 

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Re: Transporting Minerals
« Reply #13 on: November 14, 2011, 10:18:37 AM »
--- Hmm, I can only copy paste the order list a gazillion times but should I just click that repeat button 20 times? That should last a long time but I wonder if there's also some button to infinitely do that task list?
Right above the "Repeat Orders X Times" Button there should be a "Cycle Orders" checkbox. Checking that box will make the task group repeat their orders indefinitely.
 

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Re: Transporting Minerals
« Reply #14 on: November 14, 2011, 02:19:42 PM »
Ive encountered this same issue.  Attempting to get minerals from Luna and transport to Earth.