How to place buy orders for research?

[Mr.Person]

So with the new DLC I decided to start a brand new game and I chose the one where you start with the PHQ already. Now that they made research cost resources, I built a Pier and a ton of S container storage so I could buy the resources for the research.

So how exactly do I make the station put out a buy order so I can research stuff?

[Random Kiwi Gamer]

Have not got that far myself yet, have you checked the Logical Overview section of the station?

EDIT: Ok i just got there myself. You have to assign a trader to it and supply the manager with funds.

[Mr.Person]

So you assign a trader to the PHQ and just select what you want to research and it automatically makes a buy order that your trader goes and gets the resources for?

Wish it would tell me how much it was for all those resources, my manager wants 6mil in operating budget on a station with only storage modules on it.

[The-Gizmo]

I haven't tried it, but you can probably put 1 unit of something you need in the storage, then use the logical overview to create a buy order for it. I've seen the option to do that, but I've never actually tried it, so hopefully that works.

[.wasted]

if you have at your PHQ:
-fitting storage types for needed wares
-a manger
-a freighter as trader attached to the PHQ

you can click at the technoligy to research, then give the manager the cash he needs, and the wares get bought and transported automatically to your PHQ

[Mr.Person]

Yup got started doing this a while ago, dang some of those researches can be expensive early game.

[BeanBagKing]

I'm trying to get resources for the first research goal, teleportation. I have a station manager (2 star), I'm pretty sure I have the storage I need (3x Paranid S Containers). I think it's the trader I'm missing.

Does it actually have to be a freighter (as in a L size ship), or were you speaking in general (i.e. will a M size transporter do)?.

How do you "attach" them to the PHQ? I've been using TaterTrader, and I have several transporters working out of the same region, but I don't know if that counts.

[Mr.Person]

I used 2 M ships and you just have to select the ship, right click on the station and click Assign as: Trader

[BeanBagKing]

Thanks, that and adding funds (right click station -> manage funds -> "accept estimate" from station account, for anyone coming after me) did it.

[BeanBagKing]

Ok, so that was working out well. However, when I moved on to Teleportation Range 1, it looks like my traders continued to fill up my storage with Advanced Electronics and Energy Cells (way more than I needed), and never purchased any Antimatter Converters. So now I'm sitting on a massive stockpile of two items, and none of the third.

Is this expected? Will they not sell some of the unneeded supplies and buy the needed ones? Shouldn't they have bought the needed ones before filling up the other two?

Is there a way to manually sell some of these resources to clear out room?

[.wasted]

i don't think that this is expected. had this same issue once, but noticed it early enough. removing and reattaching the frighter will stop it.

EDIT:
but maybe its just the manager who wants to fill up the storage, haven't cheked the station settings yet, but maybe its this

[[BHA] Parazac]

did anyone resolve this?

the same issue is happening with my PHQ, after Teleport I finished i then selected Teleport II but my station manager just seems to keep auto buying the old resources and never the new ones i need for the research.

thanks

[Tracey]

Originally posted by BHA Parazac:

did anyone resolve this?

the same issue is happening with my PHQ, after Teleport I finished i then selected Teleport II but my station manager just seems to keep auto buying the old resources and never the new ones i need for the research.

thanks

You need some of the older resources for other Research too. All I did in my run, was putting some small storages on the stations, gave it credits and selected the research I wanted. The Manager bought all it needed for them while I did other things.
Not added any freighter to the Station.

[[BHA] Parazac]

ah, so best to remove my freighter and miner and let the manager just buy it all.

thanks, will give that a go

[Ruges]

Originally posted by BHA Parazac:

did anyone resolve this?

the same issue is happening with my PHQ, after Teleport I finished i then selected Teleport II but my station manager just seems to keep auto buying the old resources and never the new ones i need for the research.

thanks

on mine it wanted to buy all the resources for all the research needed. When you select the station and go to info. then select station overview. on the bottom of that list will be all the resources needed to do the research. if you left click the resource a drop down menu will show. by default its set to automatic stock and automatic buy. You can manually change these to what you want first. You can manually change the prices to so it only buys it when it is low. or you can jack up the buy price to get the AI to sell it to your quicker. Or you can lower the amounts to nothing and haul the stuff you want there yourself.

[[BHA] Parazac]

thanks for the tip, yeah i can see that now.

i might as well add a few large storage modules and then leave it to buy every ware for all the research.

i thought it would only buy what was needed for the research selected, my bad, lol