Simple Warehouse Station - How?

[SiepiacaLodyga]

I built a simple station with a docking port and two storages for silicon. No production modules, the station is to be an ordinary warehouse. How to make my mining ships extract the ore and leave it in this station?

And how to arm my station? I see that I can edit specific modules, but I do not have the option of choosing weapons or shields as in the case of the screen on which we buy ships?

Sry for my englado.

[Captiva]

I do not know how or if you can have ships just drop cargo off, but turrets and shields are only on certain modules and you have to select them Go to your plan build screen and in the top right on the right of the name of the module. It is a little square with a pencil icon.

[salzlaender]

You need to buy the blueprints for the weapons. Any race is okay, since weapons are the same.
Teladi have best shields.

I don't know if you can auto-mine in a station that has no ore refinery? (Command would be right click with selected ship and role -> miner, which makes the ship subordinate)

Maybe workaround by adding a refinery but not a ship bringing in energy cells.

[SiepiacaLodyga]

There is no command to unload the ship, and all "trade with" commands do nothing. In X3 at least you could manually unload the ships where you wanted if there was adequate storage space.

So in a game where the greater part is economics, you can not even have a functional warehouse? So you have to wait for the next patches and dlc. God.

Once again, Egosoft and their only, perfect UI vision.

[Vellsi]

There is a one-time "Transfer wares with" command that you can use to have the ship unload its cargo to the station or build storage. Make sure to select the right goods and the amount and press Confirm at the bottom. Also make sure there are no previous commands queued that prevent the new one from executing.

I've not tried to see what happens if a ship is assigned as "Mining for" a station without production modules but as you can select the command in the UI on stations with only storage I'd presume the option does what it says and the ship then mines and drops off cargo until the station's storage is full. Once assignedthere is also a range setting in the behaviour tab to tell a ship how many jumps/gates it's allowed to move away from the station to get its goods. Does "Mining for" not work?

[SiepiacaLodyga]

"Extract for" does not work, ships fill up their warehouse, and stop in place.

The command (transfer warez ...) you are talking about does not unload ships, actually does not do anything.

Any combination with the 'default behavior' has no effect, because the ships just begin to mine and sell. And that's why I thought that in my station I could set a buy order with a high purchase price but at the same time forbid the station manager to trade with foreign ships. But you cannot just make a random buy order like in X3.

I am a little annoyed because EGOsoft, or rather die-hard fans of the company explain that the game is a sandbox but what kind of a sandbox is this if the toys are broken, and you can not do the simplest things that the veteran of this series of games would have come up with.

[Kethevin]

Has anyone figured this out. I would like to set up several warehouses to just store ore for me.

[Yow!]

Originally posted by Kethevin:

Has anyone figured this out. I would like to set up several warehouses to just store ore for me.

Just assign a mining ship, add solid wares in logical overview, and create a buy offer. You will need a special trade rule to avoid buying them from npcs.

Now i wish they would use the mining ship to sell them as well, but that part seems impossible, or require a high skill manager. Does anyone know something about it?

A distribution center by station management doesn't seems to work either, it buys, but it doesn't sell. It would clean the unassigned ships list.