Local Auto Trader in Argon Prime failing.

[Harag]

Hi, I have a small ship and set it to LOCAL Auto Trade HULL Parts in Argon prime as the wharf doesn't have any. Looking at the prices I can buy them at 205 from the 2 metal factories and sell them to the wharf for 275. Profitsss

However, when I set the ship to local auto trade in hull parts, it keeps coming back with "unable to find suitable trade in sector" or something like that. I could set it to repeat order, but then

However, if I switch it to local auto trade in Refined Metals instead, that worked and it finds trade.

Any idea why the hull parts trade is failing, when I can visually see that there is trade there.

Note I've placed satellites around the stations and even scanned them to about 70% if that makes a difference.

Cheers

[Bozz 💀]

yeah I don't really know why but sometimes it just doesn't want to work, this is why I only use Repeat orders now...

I tried making the pilot better but it doesn't help, sometimes it will stay there for like 1 hour saying "unable to find suitable trade in sector" and then after an hour or so it will start trading.

[Harag]

Originally posted by Bozz 💀:

yeah I don't really know why but sometimes it just doesn't want to work, this is why I only use Repeat orders now...

I tried making the pilot better but it doesn't help, sometimes it will stay there for like 1 hour saying "unable to find suitable trade in sector" and then after an hour or so it will start trading.

I just found the below thread. - basically the answer was from the developer - they only by BELOW average price and sell ABOVE average price. Stations in by game were all above average, but were profitable, and I wanted to keep the wharf supplied while there was some profit to be made.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/392160/discussions/0/3278068270797239143/?ctp=2

[eMYNOCK]

what you want to do for prices that are always above average is the repeat order command.

you setup a sector to buy in, a ware you want and a max price your ship is allowed to pay.
then you setup a sector to sell in, a ware and a minimum price your ship is required to earn.

the auto traders, local and such, will never buy above average and most time never sell below average.

[Harag]

Originally posted by eMYNOCK:

what you want to do for prices that are always above average is the repeat order command.

you setup a sector to buy in, a ware you want and a max price your ship is allowed to pay.
then you setup a sector to sell in, a ware and a minimum price your ship is required to earn.

the auto traders, local and such, will never buy above average and most time never sell below average.

Thanks, I'll take another look at the repeat order, When I set that as the default behaviour it only had the ware option and the anchor sector option, then when I selected the station to buy the metals from there was no max price setting, (though I'm sure I've seen it somewhere before, can't recall where).

What I'm wanting to do is buy from TWO metals and deliver to just the wharf, but a setting of min/max price in place.

EDIT: I think I know where I went wrong - I wasn't clicking CONFIRM after setting the repeat order. I selected repeat, then went to station to buy... Doh Noticed the mistake I made watching the below excellent video within the first few minutes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhn_COZESQI