My miners are dropping goods?

[Cptkwirk]

I have just noticed some of my large miners are randomly droping containers holding a few hundred silicon for no reason anyone else experienced this. Their cargo hold are not full and they have always sold there wares

[otto_deluxe]

They drop whatever they cannot sell in their next trade. If they have 2000 ore, and a station buys 1700, they drop 300 and then fly off to sell 1700. I think it's to avoid stuff getting stuck in the cargo holds, and avoid a second trip for small amounts of goods. You would probably rather have your miner go on mining sooner again than sell 300 ore (which could take some 20 minutes).

Maybe this gets adjusted whenthe sell bevahiour gets a (much needed) update

[Cptkwirk]

They drop whatever they cannot sell in their next trade. If they have 2000 ore, and a station buys 1700, they drop 300 and then fly off to sell 1700. I think it's to avoid stuff getting stuck in the cargo holds, and avoid a second trip for small amounts of goods. You would probably rather have your miner go on mining sooner again than sell 300 ore (which could take some 20 minutes).

Maybe this gets adjusted whenthe sell bevahiour gets a (much needed) update

Thankyou for clarifying that. Much appreciated.

[PowerPC603]

They could also hold on to that 300 ore and mine a bit more. What's the point of mining 2000 ore first (which takes time), drop 300 ore without compensation and sell only 1700 of it?