stations have no room to buy my goods

[Spaz]

been running into this issue more and more lately, is there a solution?

[Daunmi]

I found it makes things easier to not pick up things like ammo and HE missile parts. They're not worth a lot per unit, and you find massive quantities of them.

[Spaz]

steel is the main thing im having a hard time selling

[Yaddah]

Well, storage space is finite. That's just the way it is. But, if you wait a few minutes, several trading ships will visit the station and usually after that, there's more space in the station which you can then fill up again with steel.

[chabero]

idle on the station with tradewindow open, if Traders come, contact them to and sell and sell... (buy what you need) ans sell sell sell to al incomming ships, but wait if the comes complete to stop.. ;)

I was selling amution, selling to the traders, selling to the station, the traders seens looking what ist to much in the station and buy this and make room for youre stuff ;)

sometimes comes 3-5 tradships, after few min the next 2-5 ships.

Let the shiptradewindows open, he wait that you closed it, the he move away, if he nopthing more to trade, let him fly.

[Spaz]

yea that doesnt seem to be enough. i visit all 3 stations and sell what i can, then go off and mine or kill some more. but when i come back, theres still not enough room to sell my goods. even when visiting all stations in the system

[JarH3ad]

could also sell some to the trade ships if you must

[chabero]

contact the tradingships to who flys around the map, a little can you sell them mostly if you need money.

[Spaz]

i feel like it might be a mod messing with the normal way of things. i feel like theres not as many trade ships, and one of the stations i rescued never gets any visits at all. cause everything that has been mentioned here is stuff ive already been doing. if no one else is having this kind of issue, it must be a mod.

[Techsuport]

make your own trade ships, have them pick up stuff to sell from your freighter, then jump to each station to sell what you can, sitting by jump gates you can find ships to trade with too

[Spaz]

i dont have enough crew for multiple ships, all this just started in the first system. and i certainly dont want to have to jump systems each time i wanna sell

[Techsuport]

Originally posted by Spaz:

i dont have enough crew for multiple ships, all this just started in the first system. and i certainly dont want to have to jump systems each time i wanna sell

build a storage place, it picks up materials close by to build stuff so u dont have to gather, you can have more room to store stuff and the storage itself can be sold once you get to a place to sell stuff, so you can keep your mass down until you actually need more storage, or just not pick up steel, r-click the salvage button to filter.
if you filter for the expensive stuff you wont have to worry about hauling/selling as much, but you also have to increase your battles to get the same amount of money from salvage then, so if you have the patience then you can even build your next ship as you pick up parts for it, and leave it uncrewed near a station you sell stuff at, for when you get more crew. This would be cheaper and faster than selling your loot, then buying again when you want to build, tho it would be better to just have a freighter type ship as your next ship to make progressing your cash faster per battle, then you can get more ships for getting through battles with less damage/costs

[CellNav]

Originally posted by Spaz:

i feel like it might be a mod messing with the normal way of things. i feel like theres not as many trade ships, and one of the stations i rescued never gets any visits at all. cause everything that has been mentioned here is stuff ive already been doing. if no one else is having this kind of issue, it must be a mod.

yeah, check for any mods to the space stations. From what I've seen (vanilla), my assumptions could be wrong here ....

The space stations appear to spawn items. I saw this while waiting at a station. The station magically acquired one tri-steel and there wasn't any trade ships around to transfer the item.
Chain of events, perhaps ...

Considering you cannot trade, the station is full.
The station is full because it's spawning items (debatable).
The station is full because nobody is trading.
Nobody is trading because pirates are destroying trade ships somewhere?

Anyway, if there's a mod that adds more "items" or adds manufacturing to a station, and I'm correct about the auto-stocking of items (even though there isn't manufacturing on the station), then the mod could have introduced a supply/demand problem.

My best guess, certainly debatable.