Question about creating Buy/Sell Offer

[Lymark]

I've owned a sector and built a self-sufficient clay complex. I wanted it so that the end product(claytronics) would not only be distributing the needed clay to the surrounding construction sites of my own, but also to sell the surplus to other factions. So, I went to the logistic tab and manually set the sell amount to 10,000 units.

I was under the impression that having the sell amount to 10k means that 10k would be self-used, and anything above would be sold to the public. However, my assumption seems to be false.

Is this the game's logic limitation, or am I setting it up incorrectly?
Thanks!

[HoloByteus]

Basically it's telling the manager NOT to create trade offers to ANYONE unless it's Over the amount you set.. the green bar is sellable. You could add trade restrictions but that just controls the public and would not enable a BYPASS for your stations ONLY.

I think a lot of people would like to see "AUTOTRANSFERS" with it's own similar specifications on amounts, no need for price at all or even a BYPASS for your stations/build radial.

As is I use it to always be sure I have this many wares for manual transfer before you sell anything to anyone.

[XIII]

Yeah its basicalyl "buy till this level of storage" and "sell till this level of storage".

Very annnoying when dealing with miners, because your own station miners will only unload ressources till the "buy" level (and require the station to have money).

[Lymark]

Alright, guess I'd better off micromanaging that bit myself then.

But yeah, It'd be nice If they could separate my own traders away from the Buy/Sell logic that 'faction trade' option uses, as that seems to be the culprit.

[HoloByteus]

You can think of the managers as Franchise owners... they may have your brand name, but they don't work for you...lol. The whole system needs a massive rework IMHO.

[Klutz2020]

I wouldnt mind if it worked completely like the Franchise owners, as long as it completely worked like that. I have not figured out how to tell my stations to deposit any credits past a certain amount to me. but if they would do that, as long as they are making money i don't mind restricting trade to all factions and not letting my guys buy/sell to them. and letting my stations have their own little economy where they trade credits from my shipyard down the stations to the beginning ones then they deposit it back into my account and i throw it all back into my acc. Haven't gotten that far into the game yet. I stopped to let it update a bit. Just started back.