No one is buying from my station.

[JewishGamblingwithGod]

I've got a meat factory station in Silent Witness I. I've got finished meat in my storage ready for sale but no one is buying it. I don't have a habitation module. Do I need a hab module to sell? right now my workforce is 0 because I don't have one.

[Harrison]

You don't need a hab module. Do you have a trade ship assigned?

[JewishGamblingwithGod]

Originally posted by Harrison:

You don't need a hab module. Do you have a trade ship assigned?

Yeah, he's actually taking some meat but only 80 even though his cargo cap is 8,400. I want NPC's to trade at my station though.

[JewishGamblingwithGod]

He might be only buying how much demand is at one station. Instead of buying the demand of multiple stations and traveling to multiple stations. I guess MY trader is doing it right but I far as I've seen no NPC traders have visited my station.

[Harrison]

AI traders only buy what's needed for a single trip. Which is why I've been micro managing it.

You can trying fiddling with the pricing, it can't really hurt to see if that will encourage some sales.

It's also possible that meat isn't needed, that there's not enough of a demand for the NPC traders to come calling.

[JewishGamblingwithGod]

Originally posted by Harrison:

AI traders only buy what's needed for a single trip. Which is why I've been micro managing it.

You can trying fiddling with the pricing, it can't really hurt to see if that will encourage some sales.

It's also possible that meat isn't needed, that there's not enough of a demand for the NPC traders to come calling.

Are we talking about AI Traders that aren't mine or both? I just had one of my traders assigned to the station sell 720 untis of meat at an ARG Federation station that only had a demand of 320. He sold all anyway. made a 8cr/unit profit.

[Captiva]

I have 2 stations. One sells Energy cells and Graphine and the other sells Water and Energy Cells. The first one is in the sector with the phq and makes a steady flow of money, but not a ton and the ice refinery makes a small profit every now and a bit. I get random AI traders all the time to the stations as neither of them have any of their own traders. Location might play a part, look for spots near jump gates and highways and make sure you have working docking bays and a manager.

[Harrison]

Originally posted by ChimeChild:

Originally posted by Harrison:

AI traders only buy what's needed for a single trip. Which is why I've been micro managing it.

You can trying fiddling with the pricing, it can't really hurt to see if that will encourage some sales.

It's also possible that meat isn't needed, that there's not enough of a demand for the NPC traders to come calling.

Are we talking about AI Traders that aren't mine or both? I just had one of my traders assigned to the station sell 720 untis of meat at an ARG Federation station that only had a demand of 320. He sold all anyway. made a 8cr/unit profit.

Both.

What you likely didn't see was that that station had a demand for 1050 meat before he ever left your factory.

It's one of the cool things that they did in this game, is they added a reservation system to trading. Now, when you send a ship to sell something, that sale is locked in. No more do you have to race the NPCs.

[JewishGamblingwithGod]

Originally posted by Captiva:

I have 2 stations. One sells Energy cells and Graphine and the other sells Water and Energy Cells. The first one is in the sector with the phq and makes a steady flow of money, but not a ton and the ice refinery makes a small profit every now and a bit. I get random AI traders all the time to the stations as neither of them have any of their own traders. Location might play a part, look for spots near jump gates and highways and make sure you have working docking bays and a manager.

I don't think it's location. I'm in Silent Witness I, right and under the gate going to Eighteen Billion. Buy offers for materials nessescary to create meat show "ware reservations" in the logic overview.

Would it show the same for AI's planning on buying meat from my station in the "meat section on the right? Is there anywhere to check the bought history of my stations products?

[ZombieHunter]

I had the same problem with energy cells. I dropped the price to the min and now it is working as expected. There is little demand for them so I'm finding new production modules by scanning the 'steady tone' static areas on them on NPC stations.

[Invasion_Dec]

The trick is to put the production station smack dab inside the sector where the product is in perpetual demand. For example an NPC ore refinery station will ALWAYS have at least 1 notch of demand for ore, because they are constantly turning it into something else. You can only mine ore, but you should get what I mean.

I did just that with all my miners, essentially providing a workforce to help NPC stations get the basic resources they need, which is often just lying around in the same sector. Made them fly into the sector, set them to auto mine what the stations there want, and confine the miners to source from 0 gates away. No 6 digit proceeds (except Nividium) but at least all of it is profit unlike auto traders. And it ramps up the economy really quickly because you are giving the factions what will essentially be the stuff they need to build fleets of destroyers.

Just make sure your production facility is in the same sector as who you want to sell to. Set trader to trade for you station. Remove from their goods list what can't be sold there, and then alter their range to 0 gates

[ZombieHunter]

Yeah I plopped my solar power plant right in the middle of a group of staitons. Ore refinery, silicon refinery, microchip factory and medical supply factory. Energy cells are in high demand at at least 2 of them. My miners are in the same sector so as long as they keep working the refineries keep refining and the microchip factory keeps producing. But if the microchips go into oversupply then it could come crashing down quickly.

I'm going to build an ore refinery and silicon refinery next. The sector is crammed full of that stuff.

[JewishGamblingwithGod]

Does anyone know though if AI ships will buy from my station and if they will, will their orders show up in the logic overview? Similiar to ware reservations placed for buying materials needed to make the final product. Seems weird if AI ships wouldn't buy at your station.

[ZombieHunter]

Yes they will. To see the orders for an NPC ship you must scan it. I'm not sure if 'reserved wares' show up in the logic overview. I think they do.