Autotrader don`t make any cash?

[$irse]

So i left game runinning for a 1 hour maybe bit more and i left 3 ship on autotrader, why they don`t make me more cash?

[Draconix26]

Which auto trader you using i am using Yet Another Trader by Yorrick Vander and it works fine for me

[$irse]

i don`t know its only autotrader

[Draconix26]

heres the link for the one i mention disable the one you are using and use this one http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=632440466

[I3laze]

I have to agree with draconix26 about using YAT mod instead of autotrader mod. I personally don't think autotrader works and the way you have to activate them to trade I do not like. YAT has more features and you can remote call them to see what profits they have made you.

If autotrader was to get updated with trade ai and Ui I would like to try it again but I don't think the author is going to bother.

[$irse]

Originally posted by Draconix26:

heres the link for the one i mention disable the one you are using and use this one http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=632440466

ok where to get trade agent??

[I3laze]

You need to win small talks on the stations or you can use a mod called TAF (trade agents forever) costs 80k per agent.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=262382979&searchtext=Trade+

If you want to automate buying trade agents you could use the Explorer software mk3 or mk4 to buy trade agents. Mk4 cost 10 mill for software and 150k per agent. The mk3 costs 50 mill I think and agents are free. Warning if you don't have much cash then be careful with the mk4 software as you could end up penniless quite quick.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=376839450&searchtext=Explorer

You can get some other mods that auto agents for free but I personally don't like them because they seem a little cheaty. Although it is a single player game, each to their own I suppose.

[Draconix26]

i just use the exploration software myself

[Hun Endorfin]

Actually i'm using the YAT, but my ships making profits very slowvly, 100k-1.2m per ship after 5-8 h.
Meanwhile manually doing trade deals(menu 6-2) make tons of money (300-700k profit or more per run/ship)
The problem is that EGO wanted to remove the ability to make tons of free money with universe traders (X3), so they decided to remove it almost completely(npc's still using it) and users have to mod the game to reenable, with mixed result.
But micromanaging ship can be extremely boring after a few hours.
Ehh..this game could be so good, but still have so many flaws..
(sry for grammar.)

[KappaOne]

Right, they didnt want this "free money"-thing in X-R and thats why its fun to see that they implemented a semi-autotrade option with their "best offers" menu, which shows you the "best" deals available. Instead of checking the market yourself you can simply use the best-offers menu like a robot and pick the best trade you see.

With this new feature it would actually be nice to have an autotrader using exactly these offers to pick the trades and it wouldnt feel like "cheating" since the autotrader would simply do what i do, just automatically ..

[Hun Endorfin]

...and while my traders autotrading , i could do some battle or exploration..Or plot...ohh wait ..
404 sideplots.fun not detected.

[cwsumner]

How much money they make, if any, depends on how the economy is doing. And, at the beginning of the game it is in a recession! It is part of your job to help it by trading and building at least a little. And the longer it goes, the more different your game will be from anyone else's.

The autotrader will help, even if it does not make money, because it starts the NPC stations producing. There are a few NPC autotraders, but not many.

That means, in the beginning when you need money the most, it is hardest to get! But it also means that the rare good deal is much better than you find later, too.

Also, one hour is not long in this game, maybe a few trips. You need to do something else while it happens. Multitask! 8-)