R-miners broken?

[JoshE]

Right got a strange one,

 

My R-miners won't pick up their ores..., I have all the necessary bits like a transporter block, the transporter software and a loot collection range slot. No matter what I try my miners won't pick up the loot, is this a change in a recent update or is my save broken?

I have plenty of hours in the game and I know what I'm doing, just strange they've all stopped picking up the ores.

[TanDeeJay]

Several things come to mind but you've probably already checked these:

  what features does your transporter software have? not all transporter software allows fighters to collect loot.

  is your cargo bay full?  did you just come out of a fight with some pirates and they destroyed some cargo bay blocks so that now your cargo bay doesn't have the capacity anymore?