Max gate buy/sell distances on autotrading

[Castor]

If I set the max sell to 0, does that mean the trader will only sell in the anchor sector, or will it only sell wherever it buys something? Moreover, what constitutes "gate distance"—are accelerators counted, or are subsectors in the same main sector counted as one sector?

[Walker Evans]

Originally posted by Castor:

If I set the max sell to 0, does that mean the trader will only sell in the anchor sector, or will it only sell wherever it buys something?

Ship would sell in the anchor sector.

Originally posted by Castor:

Moreover, what constitutes "gate distance"—are accelerators counted, or are subsectors in the same main sector counted as one sector?

Big hexes on the map. Sectors separated by either one jump gate or accelerator count as 1 gate distance. Sectors separated by one superhighway count as 0 gate distance.

[Gregorovitch]

There are three types of gate in X4. The big blue round flat gates and the two types of accelerator. I can't even remember what the two types of accelerator are called, one is called a "super highway" I think.

No matter.

Certain sectors, for example Grand Exchange, are depicted on the map as two or three small hexes inside a bigger hex. These are connected by one kind of accelerator gate, let's say type A accelerators. This type of accelerator does NOT count as a gate jump for the purposes of calculating range distances.

Other sectors, such as Second Contact, are also connected by accelerators (as opposed to gates) but in this case the connected sectors are depicted on the map as completely separate hexes. These accelerators are different, let's say type B. Passing through type B accelerators DOES count towards calculating range distances.

To make sense of this it's good to understand what is actually going on here:

* Type A accelerators connect sectors around the same planet. All three sectors in Grand Exchange, for example, are located in orbit around the same very obvious gas giant.

* Type B accelerators connect sectors orbiting different planets in the same solar system. This why Terran space is mainly connected with type B accelerators, it's mostly within our solar system. Moons of Jupiter etc can be connected together via type A accelerators.

* True gates are used to connect sectors located in different solar systems - interstellar travel basically.

[Castor]

Thanks!