Posted by: MarcAFK
« on: October 01, 2015, 08:22:59 AM »Ok well that's interesting.
I usually build my freighters just large enough for 1 installation; that's a single standard cargo hold. Keeps them from getting gigantic, meaning I don't need huge shipyards to build them. So my orders look like so:
load auto mine at Earth
unload auto mine at (colony)
refuel at Earth
And I set them to repeat however many times it takes to deliver the desired number of mines. Then I throw in one set for delivering a mass driver.
I guess my way isn't so great if you use freighters large enough to carry multiple installations; but I've done it this way so long I just never really considered any other option.
First, do not try to get fancy and use more complicated orders than you have to. It's not that aurora can't handle it, it's more of a human error thing. Aurora uses pretty convoluted controls in some places, and it's easy to screw up and issue nonsensical orders. I suspect you're mixing something up along the way, issuing an impossible order at some point.
Second, MarcAFK, I recommend loading issuing the load mass driver order last, so you can easily use the "repeat orders" function.