Tell traders to trade for building materials???

[Witski]

Pretty much the title.
Im sure i have done that already but now i can't see the option,i want to tell my freighters to go and buy every building material for the construction of one of my station automatically but i can't see anymore the option (if there is one),it takes forever,teladi doesn't have any hull parts ( im building a hull part factory ).

Edit: it seems that in teladi and paranid sectors there is a huge lack of hull parts even if it's fullof factories and i provide them with materials,no one sells it ( argon and the rest of the map is not yet discovered)

[eMYNOCK]

To automatically let Ships fetch Building Materials you can simply assign them to a Stations Build Storage...

Be aware, unless the Station you want to get build has a Manager (at last a S/M Dock and the named Manager Assigned) your Ships will have to rely on their own Piloting/Morale Experience to find Trades.

[Daggoth]

Assign traders to the station as "Trade for Buildstorage" and they'll trade exclusively for building materials for that station. Good when you don't want to have to rely on NPCs for every last brick.

But yeah that doesn't do much if there's no material available on the market...

[Witski]

Yeah..the problem is i don't have "trade for building storage",i guess i must have the dock first (which can't be built withou hulls) ..my discovered sectors need like 50k hull parts and no one sells it

[Witski]

Edit: im the one who need 50k hull parts lol i have to sell to my self and to teladi..i have a axiliari ship that need to be build in queue for hours

[Belteguesian]

You need a manager to do this.... best thing to do is send your traders to get the parts and put them on build storage manually (It's what I do all the time) to save time (in the end) and frustration, also even if you assign these traders to Build Storage trading they will be limited to 5 jumps maximum depending on their or the manager's experience, which, as you said they don't have anything to buy...

[Belteguesian]

Originally posted by Witski:

Edit: im the one who need 50k hull parts lol i have to sell to my self and to teladi..i have a axiliari ship that need to be build in queue for hours

This doesn't change much what I posted... do it yourself...
Ohh and better explore those Argon (more likely HOP) sectors to find what you need

[Witski]

Originally posted by Belteguesian:

You need a manager to do this.... best thing to do is send your traders to get the parts and put them on build storage manually (It's what I do all the time) to save time (in the end) and frustration, also even if you assign these traders to Build Storage trading they will be limited to 5 jumps maximum depending on their or the manager's experience, which, as you said they don't have anything to buy...

yeah i just go to argon and buy a couple of L freighter just to do that ( i started with the intention of play with teladi ships only but at this point i don't care anymore).
Argon atm have TONS of ships and materials..by tons i mean i have up to 30 fps in the map already :D.

Dock yard starts the building process now and my traders are going by themselfes to arg to buy ( two 5 star pilots)

[Witski]

I still don't understand why Teladi won't produce ANY hull parts...

[Daggoth]

Remember that Teladi hull parts factories use Telaldium instead of refined metals, so there may be a shortage of that.
Beyond that sometimes the AI is a bit short sighted and doesn't build factories to make factory building materials until they're out of the materials needed to make them. That or they build 130 stations at the same time and they're all fighting over the same tiny scraps of materials.

The gaps in the economy are there for you to fill them so set up a trading station or other trade route and shuttle hull parts from argon space to Teladi space and reap the profits.