Trade Station Trouble Shooting

[PurplePancake]

Hey you lovely knowlegable x4 players.
I have a new issues and a general idea what causes it but no idea how to solve it.

Quick summary. I have a advanced electronics factory with teladi habitation modules in asteroid belt.
I have so far only bought medical supplies because nostrop oil is on the other side of the galaxy i just found the look of the habitation modules cool not thinking about them needing different resources.

Now i want my station to sell overflow and produce to my trade station in Second Contact two which if i understand correctly is 3 jumps away right ?
Terrans dont need the wares and asteroid belt isnt the best spot to sell to the rest of the galaxy. The Manager is lvl 3 and almost 3 morale.

First big question:
Does the morale matter for the sector ranges i noitced it matter for advanced auto trade and mine they need 3 morale and piloting for that does that apply to managers aswell ? than that may be the issue.

Now I have set up a trade rule restricting trade to all faction but me and manually set it to all the sell and buy orders for the ressource i want to be transfered on both stations respectively.
I also set the buy amount for nostrop oil on the factory to one and maxed out the price.
I checked what the station set as behaviour for the 4 traders and all of them have nostrop oilt set as auto trade.
So i assume the manager wants to fill the lack of nostrop oil up from 0 to 1 since everything else is maxed out and so the ships are stuck not finding that 1 nostrop oil cause the teladi are to many jumps away. I guess the prioritize supplying over selling correct?

So the big big question basically is.
Is this nostrop oil not being available the reason the manager isnt selling the produce to my trade station becasue he is stuck not finding nostrop oil and how to i fix it except for well buy nostrop oil manually or build a nostrop oil factory there or destory the habitation modules?
Can i somehow tell the manager stop buying that crap i dont want u to buy it right now ?

[Sinius]

Sorry. Good Morning! Maybe I need more coffee. But I am a bit confused at what you want to get where. For one I have never known morale to effect much of anything. Second I normally test buying and selling with less trade restrictions before putting them in place.

You can make a station commander stop buying by removing the buy order altogether but I assume that is not what you are asking exactly. If he has the ware he should be able to sell it. Not having one particular ware should not prevent the selling of another ware.

I don't normally ask for screen shots but they may be helpful here.

[PurplePancake]

Originally posted by Sinius:

Sorry. Good Morning! Maybe I need more coffee. But I am a bit confused at what you want to get where. For one I have never known morale to effect much of anything. Second I normally test buying and selling with less trade restrictions before putting them in place.

You can make a station commander stop buying by removing the buy order altogether but I assume that is not what you are asking exactly. If he has the ware he should be able to sell it. Not having one particular ware should not prevent the selling of another ware.

I don't normally ask for screen shots but they may be helpful here.

yeah i guess i worded this all weird im not native english. Honestly all i want to do is make my production station deliver goods to my trade station and only MY trade station. I told it to do just that but the 4 traders just hover around not being able to find trades. And in their behaviour it says that the manager tells all 4 to go look for nostrop oil becasue my station need that for workforce.

I think that is the reason they dont go sell the station wares. They want to buy that oil but cant. So all i want to do is remove the buy order for nostrop oil but i dont think that this is possible at least i cant find a button in the menu to do that. All i managed to do is reduce the buy amount to 1 and increase the price to max but that doesnt do anything the station is still trying to buy that oil with all 4 ships

[PurplePancake]

Originally posted by PurplePancake:

Originally posted by Sinius:

Sorry. Good Morning! Maybe I need more coffee. But I am a bit confused at what you want to get where. For one I have never known morale to effect much of anything. Second I normally test buying and selling with less trade restrictions before putting them in place.

You can make a station commander stop buying by removing the buy order altogether but I assume that is not what you are asking exactly. If he has the ware he should be able to sell it. Not having one particular ware should not prevent the selling of another ware.

I don't normally ask for screen shots but they may be helpful here.

yeah i guess i worded this all weird im not native english. Honestly all i want to do is make my production station deliver goods to my trade station and only MY trade station. I told it to do just that but the 4 traders just hover around not being able to find trades. And in their behaviour it says that the manager tells all 4 to go look for nostrop oil becasue my station need that for workforce.

I think that is the reason they dont go sell the station wares. They want to buy that oil but cant. So all i want to do is remove the buy order for nostrop oil but i dont think that this is possible at least i cant find a button in the menu to do that. All i managed to do is reduce the buy amount to 1 and increase the price to max but that doesnt do anything the station is still trying to buy that oil with all 4 ships

Which is really dumb btw. They station has orders to buy exactly 1 nostrop oil and not more and has no oil within like 7 or 8 jumps and order all 4 medium traders it has to go look for 1 nostrop oil forever and ever

[Sinius]

Well. First off. Trade stations don't need a population to run. I don't normally put Habitats unless for aesthetics. If the Oil is for station populace then you won't be able to remove it. Additionally if you have the trade restrictions set to buy/sell with player only then unless you are producing Nostrop oil they will not be able to find it. The Station Manager does set priorities. Keeping population happy is one. I will have to experiment to see if you can set Med/Food supply to universal. Other wares can always be limited.

[PurplePancake]

Originally posted by Sinius:

Well. First off. Trade stations don't need a population to run. I don't normally put Habitats unless for aesthetics. If the Oil is for station populace then you won't be able to remove it. Additionally if you have the trade restrictions set to buy/sell with player only then unless you are producing Nostrop oil they will not be able to find it. The Station Manager does set priorities. Keeping population happy is one. I will have to experiment to see if you can set Med/Food supply to universal. Other wares can always be limited.

well the problem is that the station is in the system asteroid belt and there is no nostrop oil a manager could aquire and i dont want to aquire it either i honestly just build the habitats for looks and fun not knowing they would mess up my station stuff.
I dont rly care about that oil all i want is my station selling the good to my trading station which is doesnt because the manager does the oil priority stuff. So if i cannot remove the buy order for the oil i guess ill have to either build an oil production factory somewhere there or i have to trade oil to that station myself

[PurplePancake]

Originally posted by PurplePancake:

Originally posted by Sinius:

Well. First off. Trade stations don't need a population to run. I don't normally put Habitats unless for aesthetics. If the Oil is for station populace then you won't be able to remove it. Additionally if you have the trade restrictions set to buy/sell with player only then unless you are producing Nostrop oil they will not be able to find it. The Station Manager does set priorities. Keeping population happy is one. I will have to experiment to see if you can set Med/Food supply to universal. Other wares can always be limited.

well the problem is that the station is in the system asteroid belt and there is no nostrop oil a manager could aquire and i dont want to aquire it either i honestly just build the habitats for looks and fun not knowing they would mess up my station stuff.
I dont rly care about that oil all i want is my station selling the good to my trading station which is doesnt because the manager does the oil priority stuff. So if i cannot remove the buy order for the oil i guess ill have to either build an oil production factory somewhere there or i have to trade oil to that station myself

i wanted to avoid building an enitre station just to make my manager stop doing stupid stuff but i guess thats the easiest solution. A repeat order across the enitre galaxy would work too i guess but i think id rather just build a station there so i dont have to buy it

[Sinius]

You can always remove the habitat modules. Just delete them from the list of built modules. No builder needed. They auto delete after a few minutes. The materials will go back into build storage.

[PurplePancake]

Originally posted by Sinius:

You can always remove the habitat modules. Just delete them from the list of built modules. No builder needed. They auto delete after a few minutes. The materials will go back into build storage.

ok i think my assumption was wrong. I have now as experiment traded some oil to the station. The traders are now set to autotrade all the stuff on my station but still wont find the trade to my trading station i am confused. They just cant find a place to sell to.