Cannot Mine

[jardail]

First of all, I have everything required TO mine. I have used the mining ship right after I first bought it.

Then the stupid bugs started.

the fedhelm would move off telling me it needed to mine some asteroids. it would move, stop, move but nothing else (where previously it had been moving, lasering and then the urv's came out and collected the ore). Now it does nothing. there is plenty of room in the ship.

Used to be able to enter mining mode too. Now this piece of crap says I don't have a ship capable of doing that.

What gives. I mean really, after over 9 months you'd think this BS would be finally working.

[ZonedOut]

Are you trying to have the ship mine on it's own, or are you trying to assist it by breaking up the asteroids with the skunk?

If you want it to mine for itself, the best suggestion is to leave the zone after ordering it to mine.

If you are trying to assist with the mining, then the ship needs to be in squad, and have collector drones. You will need to stay close to the ship. If it was working before and isn't now, have you checked the drone status to make sure the drones haven't gotten lost/destroyed? If you look at the drone status and see they are all "in use" but don't see them out and about then they've probably gotten lost or destroyed.

Outside of that can you post a save game somewhere?

[YorrickVander]

The bug appears to be in the in zone ai. If, as ZonedOut suggests, you leave the ship to mine in a different zone to yourself it works fine. When I've witnessed the issue I see similar, the ship searches for wares, flies off to a rock, stops and does nothing for a bit (repeat to fade).

[jardail]

Thanks for your responses gents. I will try these and check the status of the collectors. Thank you for your time.

[spankahontis]

The bug appears to be in the in zone ai. If, as ZonedOut suggests, you leave the ship to mine in a different zone to yourself it works fine. When I've witnessed the issue I see similar, the ship searches for wares, flies off to a rock, stops and does nothing for a bit (repeat to fade).

Yeah, I can confirm with mine, it mines when you leave the zone.

But you have to mine yourself while in your squad to get the vessel to collect the ore.

Don't know why this has changed, worked fine in previous versions.
Even Mining Ships that are assigned to a Station do the same, they go shy in the same zone, yet check their cargo they have Ore in it soo they have been mining, they just wont do it in your company.
Most people work hard in front of their boss to not get fired.

[YorrickVander]

Maybe it's like using a urinal when its really crowded, you really want to but just cant quite get started....

[jardail]

Maybe it's like using a urinal when its really crowded, you really want to but just cant quite get started....

lol that's got to be it.