Posted by: Kelron
« on: July 22, 2011, 12:04:35 PM »
I'm playing my first game of Aurora, after going through the tutorials. I've been letting time run pretty fast while I research tech and try to work things out one at a time and I'm starting to deplete Earth's mineral supply. I have 2 freighters designed pretty much exactly like the ones in the tutorial, with 5 cargo bays each. I've surveyed Sol entirely and found some suitable mining sites, and also begun jump gate construction to adjacent systems. I have both freighters in a task group, and tell them to load automated mines on Earth. Shortly afterwards the event log says they were unable to complete the order, but gives no indication why. What do I need to do to load the mines, and is there anything in particular I need to do to set up automated mining beyond unloading the mines on an asteroid?
I'm also researching the mining module for ships, do these ships need cargo holds to store what they mine (same goes for the salvage ships I made to investigate wrecks I found, do they need cargo holds)?