Possible to ban miners/traders from going to other factions?

[Raiko ♥]

Well title kind of explains what i mean. Lets say i just want my miners to only trade in argon space, is this possible? thanks

[Malkuth]

Start in argon prime, set gate travel to 2. They stay in argon space around argon prime.

[Raiko ♥]

Yeah i had my miners etc to max 1 gate jump, but they went from Second contact, and insted of going to ie argon prime they use highway from thru teladi space lol i guess its some kind of pathfinding bug.

[cc]

Gonna need an actual sector whitelist if they expect us to do faction wars. Unless they avoid enemy faction areas? I haven't tried yet.

[Raiko ♥]

No clue CC. I got a few miners going about im going to join the argon war against the holy whatsthierface and see if they avoid that area, ill comeback with a reply when its done

[Audiomachine]

Originally posted by Sancti:

No clue CC. I got a few miners going about im going to join the argon war against the holy whatsthierface and see if they avoid that area, ill comeback with a reply when its done

i'm interested in the result too

[Raiko ♥]

Originally posted by Malkuth:

Start in argon prime, set gate travel to 2. They stay in argon space around argon prime.

I tried your advice, made sure to "Remove all orders" etc first on the miners, then moved em all to argon prime. Reset thier orders to max 1 jump but still they visit more than 1 station (they go from prime to True Sight) . im going to try to make the ore miner a silicone miner and see if that helps my silicone ones seem to do what i want atleast lol

[Raiko ♥]

Update; bought few more miners and set em to 1 jump max, they still visit HOP Faction.

I also just talked to the npc to join thier war against em. At this momemt iam at around 1+ with the holy order and iam going to to thier sector and kill some civilians and see if my traders will stop go to thier sector when im considerd me an enemy to them.

Note; i got no satelites in any of thier system either im planning to place some when they see me as an enemy

[Raiko ♥]

Im now at -15 with them. According to the "Faction and info" screen they wont destroy my stuff but docking is not allowed. I'll update if traders will still go and if i maybe need a -20 or even -30 for for my traders to not go there. ill update soon again according to how it turns out.

Edit; also sent a scoutship to True Sight sector (which is the only HoP i've got on my map atm) now to put some satelites in there to see if this changes anything.

[Raiko ♥]

Originally posted by cc:

Gonna need an actual sector whitelist if they expect us to do faction wars. Unless they avoid enemy faction areas? I haven't tried yet.

Originally posted by Audiomachine:

Originally posted by Sancti:

No clue CC. I got a few miners going about im going to join the argon war against the holy whatsthierface and see if they avoid that area, ill comeback with a reply when its done

i'm interested in the result too

After spending some time in SETA i think its safe to say that if you are -15 with a faction, your traders will NOT visit the enemy sectors, even though the price for ore is good there they do not go there now.

[Tilen]

I've found that the jump gate distance doesn't seem to work either, unless I misunderstand.

Leaving the distance at 0 I assume would limit the miner to the current sector, which it doesn't.

[Raiko ♥]

Originally posted by Tilen:

I've found that the jump gate distance doesn't seem to work either, unless I misunderstand.

Leaving the distance at 0 I assume would limit the miner to the current sector, which it doesn't.

Yes that was my understanding aswell lol.

[Vandragorax]

Originally posted by Tilen:

I've found that the jump gate distance doesn't seem to work either, unless I misunderstand.

Leaving the distance at 0 I assume would limit the miner to the current sector, which it doesn't.

That's certainly how it should work.

[Viral]

Same issue, currently pouring out miners in the vain hope of keeping argon factories supplied. Im up to 57 miners.. :/

Good for profit margins.. Unintended though. Kinda feels like a universe trainer had a kid with the sector limit choice and the kid didnt quite turn out too smart.. dodgy bugs.

[ImHelping]

"Just limit their jumps!" not only is awkward answer.

It's an answer that doesn't even work for the goal of "I don't want to trade with X factions" in many cases.

Argon subfactions in particular will often have a mix of faction stations in the same sector. I've even seen them share a sector with SCA at times.

[Morbius]

The jump distance is for sourcing the ore (asteroids) not selling it, they will go as far as they need in order to sell. so if you set it right you can stop them from mining in enemy territory.
The reason they no longer went in HOP space at -15 is in your post, they cant dock = the ycant sell, so no reason to go there.