Help silicium

[Destriss]

I'm trying to get some income by creating some mining vessels, I've tried with ice and I've seen that silicon sells much better.

Except that I manage to move a ship on Argon prime to harvest silicon, and the 2nd one with a full cargo hold, refuses the order telling me that there is no buyer nearby ....


I don't even know if it's bugs or if the devs are drinking.

Can someone try to explain to me to be sure to configure the ia to mine well? and if someone can tell me if there are more interesting sectors for silicon or if it's not really serious.

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[Wraith]

1. Argon Prime is one of the worst mining spot in the game.

2. Silicon is the hardest to mine so I wouldn't recommend using it as a mean to get profit for low level miner.

3. Sector automining require that the refinery be in the same sector as the resource.
There is a bypass to this rule however and this bypass is applied to sector with superhighways.
Superhighways don't count as jumps so they can sell and mine in multiple sector with no issue.

One example of a sector with superhighway is Grand Exchange.

[Destriss]

ok, I restarted an old savegame so issuing orders to my ships is boring, no explanation, I have 2 low level ones. I collected between 30 and 35k. And now they tell me that they can't find any buyer in the sector ....

I don't understand...

[PolecatEZ]

Originally posted by Destriss:

ok, I restarted an old savegame so issuing orders to my ships is boring, no explanation, I have 2 low level ones. I collected between 30 and 35k. And now they tell me that they can't find any buyer in the sector ....

I don't understand...

There might not actually be any buyers in the sector at the moment. You could also have your sell prices set too high. Can you manually find a station that needs the silicone and can you manually order your ships to go sell to it?

[Destriss]

wait I can decide the price? but where do we see it? I came back selling ice cream ...
so it was selling very well before, but if I have to do micro-management every 5 minutes, it's going to be a pain in the ass...

[Bozz 💀]

Set the price as low as possible, if it's mined it's still gona make tons of money and at least you'll be selling and don't have to micro.
You only micro in the beginning, later you won't really care about the price because you'll be selling a lot more

[Destriss]

but how i can set the price ? , i find how to send ships but i didnt see where i can do that

[Destriss]

and Wraith said Silicium at the beginning is not a godd thing , what i have to do ?

[Bozz 💀]

Do you have a station ? or you just using ships ?

if you only use ships, you can use repeat order to make them mine Ore where you want and then make them sell the ore in several sectors

just watch this video real quick, gonna make a lot of money that way ^^
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhn_COZESQI&t=276s

[Destriss]

Originally posted by Bozz 💀:

Do you have a station ? or you just using ships ?

if you only use ships, you can use repeat order to make them mine Ore where you want and then make them sell the ore in several sectors

just watch this video real quick, gonna make a lot of money that way ^^
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhn_COZESQI&t=276s

i have only ships , i have only 12hours to the game ^^

[Bozz 💀]

Originally posted by Destriss:

Originally posted by Bozz 💀:

Do you have a station ? or you just using ships ?

if you only use ships, you can use repeat order to make them mine Ore where you want and then make them sell the ore in several sectors

just watch this video real quick, gonna make a lot of money that way ^^
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhn_COZESQI&t=276s

i have only ships , i have only 12hours to the game ^^

Then repeat orders is your way to go !

[Destriss]

And , i know its better to have 3 stars pilot , but for a beginning , when we have no money i take with less star . Pilots can gain experience , its slow i think , or its better to wait have enought money for bought ship with high lvl pilots ?
When i have message like : there are no buyers in the area , put a satellite can be help near stations ? or its good without too ?

[Sinius]

You do have to be able to see trade data from stations. Yes satellites.