Will Argon buy from Terran ship fabrication bay?

[KnightedWarrior]

I made a Terran ship fabrication bay in Getsu Fune, and opened it to everyone who can trade with me.
But the only faction purchasing from me is Terran with just like 2-3 trading ships every now and then.

Argon is at +0 reputation, and Antigone at +6.
Does it need to be higher or something?

[-Norbert-]

Any shipyard and wharf module can build all ships of their respective size, provided you have the blueprint. Reputation also shouldn't matter, as long as you aren't in the negative, or forbid that faction to buy from you via trade rules.

But each ship will need it's native materials to build, so Teladianium for Teladi, computronic substrate + microlattive for Terran and Hullparts for everyone else, ect.
The non-Terran ships need quite a few things to be built, so it's easy to overlook or run low on one material or the other.

Furthermore in my experience, the AI will buy ships at the nearest shipyard, provided it has all the necessary material for the ship. So if their own shipyard is fully stocked and your shipyard is further away from where the AI needs ships, they'll build them in their own yard.

The AI is also sometimes reluctant to buy ships with insufficient armament, so getting the missile and primary weapon blueprints favoured by that species can also help in boosting sales of your shipyard.

[mmmcheesywaffles]

Most initial Faction customers seem to like that you have the Blueprints [and resources] to sell them a small Patrol.


They also like it that you can supply their order in good time. So have storage bins for the supply of a small Patrol and your orders will come through. Add a few habitats for any customers so they can crew their ships

It feels good when you get your first orders for full Patrols, but even better when they start ordering L's

[Set-115689]

Some factions may not buy many ships while others may buy many more just an fyi.

[🎮 PalkoVvodets 🔑]

Originally posted by -Norbert-:

The AI is also sometimes reluctant to buy ships with insufficient armament, so getting the missile and primary weapon blueprints favoured by that species can also help in boosting sales of your shipyard.

Can't say about missiles as I buy those at the very beginning, but factions definitely don't need your possession of equipment blueprints. I don't buy most of available blueprints from factions to prevent clogging in the loadout menu, but NPCs still order weird setups with equipment my ship production engineers are not aware of.
I imagine that faction sends own engineer with blueprints to control quality of works