Transferring Ore -Contract still counts?

[Kobymaru]

Hi! I have accepted a (what I thought) juicy contract of extracting Ore from Gilly and "bringing" it to Eve. Little did I know that it actually wanted me to *land* it on eve. I should really start reading the fine print, huh?

Anyway, my plan is to make use of this contract to pay for my Gilly mining infrastructure, including a mining station and a lander. I want to land on Gilly, mine the Ore, transfer it to a tanker, rendezvous with a dedicated eve landing module, and transfer it to the landing module.

My question is: does this still count? I mean techically it should, because it's still "the ore". But I have no idea how the contracts actually track it, since it's just a number in a config file. Will my plan work, or do I have to do that directly?

Edited December 3, 2015 by Kobymaru

[Aethon]

Also wondering about this.

[Finox]

1 hour ago, Kobymaru said:

...I want to land on Gilly, mine the Ore, transfer it to a tanker, rendezvous with a dedicated eve landing module, and transfer it to the landing module...

Hello, question: Are you transferring the ore from one tank to another after leaving Gilly?   If so then I don't know and am curious as to the answer.   However, If you mean that you are transferring it to a tanker while on Gilly then you should be ok.   I did something exactly like this only on Minmus, basically I "pre-mined" a tank of ore (after accepting the contract, critically important) and transferred it to a tanker that had docked with my base on Minmus.   The ore tanker then proceeded to its destination and the contract completed for me.   So as long as the ore stays in the same tank from origin to destination the contract will complete.

[Kobymaru]

9 hours ago, Finox said:

Hello, question: Are you transferring the ore from one tank to another after leaving Gilly?

That was the idea, yes. Tanker docks to a lander in Gilly orbit, lander undocks, goes to Eve surface.

9 hours ago, Finox said:

 did something exactly like this only on Minmus, basically I "pre-mined" a tank of ore (after accepting the contract, critically important) and transferred it to a tanker that had docked with my base on Minmus.   The ore tanker then proceeded to its destination and the contract completed for me.   So as long as the ore stays in the same tank from origin to destination the contract will complete.

Did you dock the tanker before or after you mined the Ore? If it was after and it still got completed, then I'll probably be safe.

[Kobymaru]

Maybe @Arsonide can help out with the question?

[Finox]

On 12/4/2015, 5:13:52, Kobymaru said:

Did you dock the tanker before or after you mined the Ore? If it was after and it still got completed, then I'll probably be safe.

I docked it on Minmus after I mined the ore then transferred the premined ore to the return vehicle.   The thing that occurrs to me is that the game probably tracks the ore's origin by part.   Which is to say that if an ore tank is flagged in the program as "from Gilly" then your contract will complete.   I transferred the ore while on Minmus, which is probably what causes KSP to flag an ore tanks contents as from that body to begin with.   If you transfer after you leave then it might not carry that flag over, depending on how the devs wrote it.   This seems like the kind of obscure question that either a dev needs to answer or you'll have to figure our experimentally.   Good luck!   I hope I was of some help anyway.