Posted by: Droll
« on: May 21, 2020, 11:13:52 AM »So I am currently using mining platforms to mine an asteroid with substantial mineral deposits. Every six months or so a new platform comes out of my factories. This is plenty of time for my tug to grab the platform, move it out to the asteroid, and come back. I actually didn't realize this and built too many tugs.
Anyway the problem is that every few months I have to give the exact same set of orders. Tractor Any Ship from Fleet, Release Tractored Ship at Location, and Refuel at Earth. So I figured this was a job for templates. But it doesn't work. For some reason if I add the first tractor from fleet order to a template, then it registers the fleet at being in the position it was in at that time. And when I use the template in the future and the shipyard fleet has moved along Earth's orbit, then the order fails.
Is there any way around this? It would be even better if I could release the tractored ships into a target fleet instead of the asteroid itself, but I assume that would have the same problem.
If the mining platforms are being attached to the tugs fleet you can take advantage of order templates in order to not have to repeat the whole order sequence one by one. The only problem is that you need one template for each unique destination but combined with order cycling this will still help you when you need many platforms on one body.