Where i can buy cargo drones?

[Szynszyl]

Hello,

I need to restock cargo drones in my station but i cant find place where i can buy them. Can anyone help me?

[Jel]

you can´t. Just tell your station how much drones it shall get and it will buy the material needed to build them. Check in your stations overview which goods are needed so if you can´t wait you can help with manual delivery.

[Szynszyl]

Ok thx :)

[Jel]

you may want to make sure, the station has a manager with enough credits to actually buy the goods. Otherwise it can´t build any drones at all.

[Szynszyl]

It has manager and credits and i find option to refil drones, thx :)

[Gregorovitch]

Originally posted by Szynszyl:

It has manager and credits and i find option to refil drones, thx :)

Sometimes drone components are hard to buy for a station manager because there are not that many drone component factories on the map. If they don't seem to be buying any it's often best to have one of your own freighters trek over to a drone component factory to buy some in my experience.

[Lapo]

Actually, you CAN buy them at shipyards, wharfs and equipment docks. Any ship that can use them can buy them and can transfer them to the station. The opposite is true as well, you can transfer drones to ships and the station manager will replace them if you have the components on board.

[aichouse]

Originally posted by Jel:

you can´t. Just tell your station how much drones it shall get and it will buy the material needed to build them.

I have looked high and low. Where do I tell it to buy drones?
Thanks in advance

[Castor]

Originally posted by aichouse:

Originally posted by Jel:

you can´t. Just tell your station how much drones it shall get and it will buy the material needed to build them.

I have looked high and low. Where do I tell it to buy drones?
Thanks in advance

Right-click your station and open the Logical Overview. You can set the trading and production parameters in there.

[aichouse]

Originally posted by Castor:

Originally posted by aichouse:

I have looked high and low. Where do I tell it to buy drones?
Thanks in advance

Right-click your station and open the Logical Overview. You can set the trading and production parameters in there.

Thank you sooo much... another screen i had never seen...

[Castor]

Originally posted by aichouse:

Originally posted by Castor:

Right-click your station and open the Logical Overview. You can set the trading and production parameters in there.

Thank you sooo much... another screen i had never seen...

Worth looking into to it, especially on production stations. You can leave it all automatic but the AI can screw up on its trading habits pretty bad and generally speaking you can make significantly better profit if you set minimum/maximum pricing on your deal proposals yourself. That and you can set trading parameters station-wide so if you don't want to trade with a particular faction then you can tell them to do one. Politely. Or be a hermit and trade internally. Or bawd it and generally have no trade restrictions like me.

There are a few tables like this that you could use to get an idea of what kind of prices to start with. The AI shouldn't lose profit if it's all left on automatic, but the margins will be tighter when you've got a lot of stuff to sell while you need to buy a lot. The manager sets buy and sell prices according to its supply and demand as far as I know.

Logical Overview is also where you define any additional wares you might want the station to trade for/with. If you have production facilities installed on the station then wares relevant to that production will be added automatically, but if you wanted to run a trading station only (for example), then you'd have to add the wares you want manually—this is where you do that. Same with mining hubs.