Station Traders not trading

[Maniac]

I built a energy cell production to my HQ and assigned a trader to sell them but its just flying idle around the station saying "searching for trade offers" (or something like that, not sure how its called in english) even tho there are like 2 stations very close which would buy the cells.

What am i doing wrong here?

[--T-a-u-r-u-s--]

Price
Station are picky from wher to buy
Or adjust price for energy cells or leave it on auto an reduce storage capacity for energy cells to have dynamic prices if you storage hits full capacity for EC the price go down to minimum
Everybody look for good price of goods

[Maniac]

Originally posted by --T-a-u-r-u-s--:

Price
Station are picky from wher to buy
Or adjust price for energy cells or leave it on auto an reduce storage capacity for energy cells to have dynamic prices if you storage hits full capacity for EC the price go down to minimum
Everybody look for good price of goods

no i mean my own traders i assigned to the station, i have set the price to 16credit per cell and the stations around are willing to buy them for 20 but my trader just isnt getting the cells from my factory and selling them to them

[--T-a-u-r-u-s--]

Ok make sure ship is under trade command on station

Managers stars mean how many sectors they can go to sell/buy stuff

Last if you play with restriction make sure your faction is there under sell otherwise you ship can not sell buy wears

[Maniac]

Originally posted by --T-a-u-r-u-s--:

Ok make sure ship is under trade command on station

Managers stars mean how many sectors they can go to sell/buy stuff

Last if you play with restriction make sure your faction is there under sell otherwise you ship can not sell buy wears

dont think i have any restrictions, at least i didnt set anything up like that yet.
the ship is assigned to the station and should trade for the commander, but its still only flying around and doing nothing

[Gregorovitch]

You have to check a number of things. When you start it's easy to miss stuff and get things wrong. You should check that all of the following are true:

* the trader is assigned to trade energy cells by the manager (see information->behaviour tab for trader ware list)

* there is a sell offer for energy cells (see station logical view)

* there are energy cells actually in stock to sell

* there is a customer willing to buy energy sells within range of the trader (see information->behaviour tab for trader gate range)

* the price the willing customer (within range) is willing to pay is greater than the current sell price shown the sell offer on the logical view.

At least one of these things will not be true and be why your trader is not selling anything.

[Maniac]

Originally posted by Gregorovitch:

You have to check a number of things. When you start it's easy to miss stuff and get things wrong. You should check that all of the following are true:

* the trader is assigned to trade energy cells by the manager (see information->behaviour tab for trader ware list)

* there is a sell offer for energy cells (see station logical view)

* there are energy cells actually in stock to sell

* there is a customer willing to buy energy sells within range of the trader (see information->behaviour tab for trader gate range)

* the price the willing customer (within range) is willing to pay is greater than the current sell price shown the sell offer on the logical view.

At least one of these things will not be true and be why your trader is not selling anything.

thanks, now its working, there was no sell offer for energy cells