Auto Trade Issue

[JTWibble]

I have a fully functioning solar power plant and have assigned a ship to sell the energy sells it produces. All works as it should except the ship is only filling a fraction of its cargo hold with energy cells. The Mercury has a capacity of 8000, but it's loading up just 120 cells for each trade, any ideas?

[HunZolka]

I also have this problem. There should be some setting for the auto trade to set either a minimal profit margin or ware volume for each transaction. I bought a big L class cargo ship, and still in auto trade I see it doing trade runs of 100 or so items. I'm still better off issuing trades for this ship manually.

[JTWibble]

Well many hours into the game I figured it all out. The lower number of cargo being sold is due to the fact that the factory your selling to only has storage for that amount. This is also based on your knowledge of factories in the area, after placing advanced satelites around the nearby sectors I started seeing much higher loads being delivered and sold. It is all rather odd, autominers can sell to distant places without satellite coverage but ships belonging to your factory need satellite coverage to function correctly.

[Splutty]

Another trick is to just load it full with whatever you want to sell, and then set it to auto trade.