How to sell my energy cells?

[Wildman John]

I have a station producing energy cells and I want my Medium Trader to sell them to whoever will buy them.
My station has a manager.
For the life of me I cannot get the trader to pick up the cells and sell them to whoever wants them.
When I put "Trade for commander" or "trade for commanders storage", the trader fails to find the cells and then does nothing.
There's no tutorials that I can find for any of this so I have no idea what to do.

[Wraith]

post a screenshot of your logistical menu with energy cell expanded.

Also check how leveled your manager is.
I recommend heading to the nearest station and grabbing a basic seminar and 1 star seminar and giving it to your manager to get him started at 2 star so he can trade 2 sector away.

[Wildman John]

My manager is level 5

[Wildman John]

https://imgur.com/a/zKiBBTF

[Wildman John]

The trader is docked at the station, there are 166000 cells there, but the trader won't pick them up and sell them.

[Wraith]

I’m talking about your logistical menu of the station
Not the station map

Right click the station and click on logistical menu and then click on energy cell to expand it

[Wildman John]

https://imgur.com/a/Yi3gEKr
Oh okay I think this is what you want.
I can see that the manager is allowing it to be sold, there's even a buy order in the future, but my trader won't pick it up and distribute it.

[Wildman John]

I had it like that right before I took the screenshot actually, didn't seem to change anything

[Wildman John]

I've put it back to sell all but 1
Could the pilot of my ship be too low despite my station manager being high enough?
My pilot is new because the ship is new, could that stop it?

[Wildman John]

It appears to be working now I think, thanks

[felmari]

price maybe. energy is abundant and many stations will have energy even if their main product is something else. something to re.ember also is the ai can sell cheaper than the players minimum. one cell rack produces a lot and can support many other modules(except recycling). the market may be flooded.

[Wraith]

Originally posted by felmari:

price maybe. energy is abundant and many stations will have energy even if their main product is something else. something to re.ember also is the ai can sell cheaper than the players minimum. one cell rack produces a lot and can support many other modules(except recycling). the market may be flooded.

That false information
AI can’t sell lower then they Player
It just as a player we see lower price because of discount and stuff

Lowest AI can set is 10 but if you see 8 it probably a supply discount or reputation discount

[felmari]

Originally posted by Wraith:

Originally posted by felmari:

price maybe. energy is abundant and many stations will have energy even if their main product is something else. something to re.ember also is the ai can sell cheaper than the players minimum. one cell rack produces a lot and can support many other modules(except recycling). the market may be flooded.

That false information
AI can’t sell lower then they Player
It just as a player we see lower price because of discount and stuff

Lowest AI can set is 10 but if you see 8 it probably a supply discount or reputation discount

maybe. i am not lying i have seen them cheaper consistantly. there can be reasons for it that i am not aware of though not because of any active actions i took. all i know is what i see i am not delving onto the code of it and the like.

[Wraith]

You don’t need to dive to the code

Just find a station with an impossible price and press trade
You will see the base price and modifiers

Supply and demand modifiers are constant
So an energy cell station that full of energy and have a base price of 10 will always be lower then 10 and can reach even lower with normal discount and reputation discount

For example energy stations of DLC faction in Avarice
They will most of the time be low because of Avarice absurd energy production bonus which lead to supply discounts