3.0 release version Mining Issue

[white_avatar]

I have a fedhelm assign to my crystal minery, after some time instead of mining it went into patrol status, I changed the captain and reassigned the ship again it still showing the same patrol status? any workaround in this issue?

[Santi]

Check that you assigned the ship to the Manager of the Station, sounds like it is assigned to the Defence Officer.

[ty_cho]

I think once a station is full of whatever the ship is "mining", rather than have the ship sit there and do nothing, it gets assigned to "patrol" the zone. Which is rather silly, as a mining ship barely has any weapons. Really, it should get assigned to "free mine" and sell the excess resources that it mines.

[white_avatar]

Check that you assigned the ship to the Manager of the Station, sounds like it is assigned to the Defence Officer.

It was assigned on the manager

[Scoob]

I've found that if you assign a ship, Miner or Freighter, to a station that already has a ship of that class AND the new assignee is NOT in the same Zone as the station, then the ship goes on Patrol despite being assigned to the manager.

I've had this several times, the fix being each time to assign the ship to my squad, ask it to fly to the same Zone as the station, then finally assign it to the Stations Manager. Doing it this way always sees the ship start the correct duty.

This is my exact scenario that I've had several times, possibly it can happen if there's not already a ship of that class assigned, but that seems to have been the pattern for me so far.

Scoob.