Cargo ships stop transporting and just sit, during missions.

[luceturtle]

I have had this problem several times now. The supply ships stop working in the middle of supplying stuff to a mission. I have tried to reassign the cargo ship to another bay but that does not work either. The stuff is waiting in the bay to be picked up but the cargo ship just sits waiting to dock...

[Rithrin]

May be a few reasons for this behavior, best we can do is speculate without screenshots/more details:

1) If it is for loading colonists, the colonists may not be residing in the same sector as the dock. If this is the case, use the Population Management screen to transfer the colonists.
2) You mention the ship is waiting to dock. It is possible that there is another ship in line in front of it, but it cannot unload resources because the dock is full. If this is the case, free up some stockpile space to allow them to unload resources from the cargo bay.
3) You may be missing some resources, so even though the cargo bay has many of the resources loaded, it doesn't have a full trip worth of resources, so the cargo ship is not loading them yet.

I'm sure there are others, but there are usually the main issues.

[Påsan]

just finished the game.
every time it this happened to me, my space bay was full of ♥♥♥♥ and could not place the required materials for the trip on the bay.

[luceturtle]

Missions: a science ship goes to a destination and and option to invest metal and food. metal and a portion of food is delivered but the remainder is sitting on the docking bay and the transport ship is perpetually waiting to dock.

[Påsan]

try restarting. you probably have, but i have had a few buildings suddenly stop interacting with eachother. reload dident help, but a restart did.

could be the same bug just on a docking bay

[luceturtle]

I restarted and there is no change. ship still waiting to dock.

[Påsan]

wish i could help more, but it must be some wierd interaction. Good luck solving it!

[RJM]

The ship will wait until all the expected cargo it can carry is in the dock. If it's 1 item short, it'll sit and wait.

[Rithrin]

Guess is full cargo dock (cannot load all resources onto dock) or lack of resources in sector (maybe all cargo minus 1 or 2 materials is on the dock, so it only looks as if all resources are ready).

Hard to speculate further without more info.

[BellatorMonk]

Did you fiddle with the Cargo ship priority resource settings?

[juliejayne]

Tried reassigning the cargo ship to a different docking bay?

[manfred.stabentheiner]

deconstruck the ship what dont move and when it start move ..end the deconstruckt

[Bobywan]

The dock is probably full, it happened to me all the time.

[Zero]

Had a 3hr mission sitting there, so here is what I did to fix it.

Unassign cargo ship from the docking bay. This removes it from the mission. Move all resources needed, including colonists, into the sector with docking bay. Assign cargo ship back in. Go to mission and select that cargo ship. Watch docking bay load up.

[Monsus]

Someone already posted their own fix, but I just fixed mine by removing the construction queue item for loading that resource (colonists in my case) in the docking bay, which was quickly re-added automatically by the ongoing colonization job.

Additional Details: Loading completed shortly after. Note that the dock already had all the resources needed to finish the colonization quest, but still would not load the colonists into the cargo ship that was already waiting to dock (the dock did not have a ship using it at the time, it was vacant). I also tried purging other resources from the dock and freed up around half of the dock's internal storage space, but that didn't seem to work.

A necro, but I think fixes/workarounds to issues encountered in the game should always be posted.