Selling ore with multiple mining ships

[mk53v3n]

I have a small mining fleet of 8 ships. One ship is the commander (set to Local Auto Mine) and the other 7 are set to mimic the commander.

Everything worked fine for a while - the ships mined the ore and sold it to a local refinery in the local sector.

However, the local refinery doesn't have any demand for ore anymore. So I need to sell the ore in a different sector now.

All 8 ships are full of ore. What is the easiest way to sell it to a station in a different sector?

When I only send the commanding ship to sell the ore there, the other ships remain in the mining sector.

Do I have to issue 8 trade / sell commands individually to all 8 ships? Or is there an easier way to do this? I basically want them all to do the exact same thing: fly over to the station and sell all their cargo there.

[Urm the Mad]

I think right now you'd want to go Sector Autotrade elsewhere on the fleet commander and keep the rest in mimic. In the future maybe drop some satellites in refineries near your mining system, when the captain of the lead vessel levels up he'll be able to trade between sectors and the rest of the fleet should follow

[Ketraar]

Originally posted by Urm the Mad:

when the captain of the lead vessel levels up he'll be able to trade between sectors and the rest of the fleet should follow

To clarify, this wont happen automatic, you need to change the behaviour from Local Automine to Advnaced Automine on the commander once it hits 3 stars.

MFG

Ketraar

[FuryoftheStars]

I didn't think that ships set to mimic could mimic a default behavior that required more stars than they had?

[Dunkler Messias]

Originally posted by FuryoftheStars:

I didn't think that ships set to mimic could mimic a default behavior that required more stars than they had?

Correct.

[mk53v3n]

Thanks for the advice guys!

[Azunai]

Your best bet might be to build a small station (really only needs a dock and solid storage) and assign the ships to it. Set most if them to mine for the station and some to trade.

The station manager determines the range of operations, so you only have to level up that one guy instread of the captains of all ships. Buy basic and 1 star seminars from station tradehubs to get the manager to 2 stars right away.

[mk53v3n]

Originally posted by Azunai:

Your best bet might be to build a small station (really only needs a dock and solid storage) and assign the ships to it. Set most if them to mine for the station and some to trade.

The station manager determines the range of operations, so you only have to level up that one guy instread of the captains of all ships. Buy basic and 1 star seminars from station tradehubs to get the manager to 2 stars right away.

That is some valuable information, thanks!
I admit, as a beginner the game is still a little overwhelming.

[The Gunsmith]

you could move their anchor space to where you want them to sell until everyone is empty and then come back and re-adjust.

or you could move the mining operation to a sector that still has reasonable demand.

without advanced auto mine these are your best options besides manually selling the wares on each ship.

alternatively you can restore demand in the system your mining in simply by shipping out the wares that ore-buying stations make.

[Doom]

Originally posted by mk53v3n:

I have a small mining fleet of 8 ships. One ship is the commander (set to Local Auto Mine) and the other 7 are set to mimic the commander.

Everything worked fine for a while - the ships mined the ore and sold it to a local refinery in the local sector.

However, the local refinery doesn't have any demand for ore anymore. So I need to sell the ore in a different sector now.

All 8 ships are full of ore. What is the easiest way to sell it to a station in a different sector?

When I only send the commanding ship to sell the ore there, the other ships remain in the mining sector.

Do I have to issue 8 trade / sell commands individually to all 8 ships? Or is there an easier way to do this? I basically want them all to do the exact same thing: fly over to the station and sell all their cargo there.

The easiest way is to build a station with solid storage, assign some of those ships as miners and some as traders, and make ore a trade ware. And level up the manager a bit.

That's because normal way to do this is repeat order, BUT it works only for one ship. Repeat order cannot be easily copied between ships, and you can't just order a fleet to buy/sell something. Or, of course, you can issue orders one ship at a time.

Those are oversights in the game. Local/advanced automine COULD work, but it requires higher skilled pilots and you might not have those.