Own mine not selling wares

[FourGreenFields]

Pretty much as in the title. Aluminum mine, set to -50% margin (which supposedly attracts more buyers), trade with other factions enabled (default setting), placed in a sector with 3 gates (and iIrc a trading station, but I'm too lazy to check now). 3 stations buying aluminum 1 gate away, another station 2 gates away. When I checked they were all filled about half with aluminum, and the next mine was much further away than my mine.

Yet, it's sitting there at max aluminum (25 and a bunch of zeroes, adding more cargo bays doesn't increase anymore). There's even some traders passing through, if I'm in-sector, but none of them buy anything.

Anything I'm doing wrong, or is that just "not yet properly implemented"?


It seems it'd earn more money if I added a bigger hangar, and used the fighters to defend the sector against pirates...

[Sir Peabody]

It requires stations in nearby sectors to need the material you are selling, so if they dont need it they wont buy it. :/

[FourGreenFields]

The thing is that they do seem to need it, and just 1-2 gates away. At least they could still buy a good bunch of aluminum - and it's at minimum price at my mine, so it does seem like there should be some profit to be made.

[LORDSOL]

i would click the com and set it on everything so you will see whats going on it may just be the cash you are getting is so low that you are losing money on every sale ,most of my sles by my ai factories and mines is over 10k

[FourGreenFields]

Allready have chat on everything. Checked the economy chat too, to make sure I didn't miss it in all those messages.