I simply cannot get sorium harvesting to operate automatically. Using the conditional orders, it refuses to return to the gas giant. Using manual tankers to carry the stuff back it kinda does work, but it spams me endlessly with "refueling could not be completed".
Does anyone know how or should I just give up trying to do it?
I'll cheatyface the hell out of a new game later tonight and do some testing. Will post here if I come up with a solution.
You can do this, but not with conditional orders. For some reason they don't work right.
1. Make sure your sorium harvesters are set as tankers and they have nice fat fuel tanks. Leave your sorium harvesters at the gas giant to gather fuel.
2. Make some normal tankers of whatever size, also set as tankers in the ship design screen.
3. Set the tankers to refuel from whatever colony you want the fuel to be dumped on, and then to "unload 90% of fuel to colony" so that they have only 10% of their fuel loads left.
4. Set the tankers to refuel from your harvester taskgroup.
5. Set the tanker taskgroup to cycle its moves.
It will continually move to the colony, refuel, drop 90% of fuel, then move to the harvesters and take all of their fuel they've harvested, then move back to the planet...
Tested with jupiter as the harvesting base and earth as the drop off point.