Is there a way to trade more of a specific good?

[nicefeet]

So I'm trying to upgrade my ship with some more Tri-Steel requiring weapons, but farming that is a pain in the ass, and stations will only trade like 5 Steel at a time, even when they have over 8000. Is there a way to trade more of it? Or what is a good way to aquire more of it?

[WillieSea]

They will trade their entire stock.

But only if you have the cargo space for it.

Same in reverse.

If you upgrade your ship next to the station, you will 'automatically' purchase anything you don't have, from the station.

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As the poster above pointed out it might be a space issue. Try starting by building some storage (anywhere is fine just use temporary storage while redesigning your ship and then delete what you dont need)

Im running up against a tristeel bottleneck myself in my current game, but I just started scooping up any tristeel for sale whenever I visit a base for any reason. That way I have a stockpile for when I want to redesign or build a new ship instead of hoping a station will have enough at that moment.