Automated Factory Selling

[Grubfist]

So I'm aware there's an option that allows me to tell my station to automatically sell its goods. I've noticed that this can be fairly slow at times, however. My station shares a sector with several NPC stations that can use its product (by design). Is there any way, through hangars or AI ships, that I can automate the selling of goods from my station to another station in the same sector? I have not touched fighters yet, but I've seen the term "cargo fighter" floating around. I also figured I could make a simple cargo hauler and repeatedly order it to buy and sell, but I imagine I'd have to set buy and sell orders for each trip, since they are one-time orders that can be queued up, rather than a constant state. or am I wrong about that? Can I give them a buy and a sell order and they'll automatically do it based on certain parameters? Flying the cargo hauler myself seems tedious and swapping buy/sell orders frequently seems tedious as well, so I'd like to try and consider my options, but trial and error is extremely expensive in this game and I am not yet making good money (hence my desire to speed up cash flow from my station).

[SkollUlfr]

you can make a cheap cargo ship so small it only needs a captain, then with a trade system installed, tell it to buy and sell in that sector, and to prefer buying from your stations. hold shift to queue up buy and sell options then hit loop to repeat the trades.

if you just want to sell in sector, put cargo fighters on your station and then in the station goods menu, select to dispatch goods. but i havnt tested this with npc stations to know if it counts as sales or cargo transfer.

things to consider are that a captain salary costs the same as nearly 4 wings of pilots, and there is/was a bug that meant stations would only use 20 transports.

[JD]

Just to chime in here, selling goods from your station to other stations (AI or from other players) via cargo fighters will sell your goods and not just transfer them. Make sure you use fighters that are large instead of small. They can haul more than 1 item at a time.