Universe trader bug?

[Kanaric1]

I notice that, often, traders will only look to buy resources produced at the station that they are landed at. Normally you see it, in property window, cycle through all the local resources and then find one and give a number on how m any its going to buy. However more often than not this doesn't seem to work, they don't look at anything outside of its own station.

Im assuming that this is a bug because there is no reason why it will work some of the time and other times it will not. If you have a ton of universe traders its INCREDIBLY time consuming to have to micromanage them into working so please work on this or tell me how i'm supposed to fix this. Never had this problem on reunion.



edit: Strange thing is that even if the station is completely full of that good it will still not buy it. Since I assume its trying to look for a best price, obviously the lowest is the best yet it still sits there no matter the UT rank. Incredibly annoying.

[uxnhoj123]

I've noticed the same thing. Once my UT's dock somewhere and go to standby, they seem to just stay that way forever until I tell them to restart. It's rather aggravating and it's making it very difficult to level them up.

Of course, it might just be that what the note says doesn't represent what they're actually checking.

[Legionnaire]

i noticed that my UT was carrying less and less so i checked stations in sector and it had maxxed out what it could trade and it was more expensive to buy than sell, so i moved it and restarted it in The wall and its gained 4 levels in about an hours play

Legionnaire

[Chris150150]

This is a problem lots of people seem to be struggling with, I've started a thread over here:

http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php? ... highlight=

God willing if we keep complaining someone will fix it.

[Incubi]

I notice that, often, traders will only look to buy resources produced at the station that they are landed at. Normally you see it, in property window, cycle through all the local resources and then find one and give a number on how m any its going to buy. However more often than not this doesn't seem to work, they don't look at anything outside of its own station.

Im assuming that this is a bug because there is no reason why it will work some of the time and other times it will not. If you have a ton of universe traders its INCREDIBLY time consuming to have to micromanage them into working so please work on this or tell me how i'm supposed to fix this. Never had this problem on reunion.



edit: Strange thing is that even if the station is completely full of that good it will still not buy it. Since I assume its trying to look for a best price, obviously the lowest is the best yet it still sits there no matter the UT rank. Incredibly annoying.

In X3R Traders would irst look at teh current station for a deal before looking elsewher, this works as time does = credits. It also takes more than a good deal for a UT to buy a goods, it also needs a good sale. If it is sitting in astation full of goods, then it may not be able to find a decent place to sell it. Untill higher levels, a traders range is rather limited. I forget teh rank/sector range.

There are a lot of areas in the Xverse that will have low level UTS do a lot of sitting. At level 18 or so you should never see one just sit around.

There are plenty of old X3R threds on this with information that is still valid. I am not sayiong there is an issue, I just have not come accross it myself, they are behaving normaly. Save I think the amount of sales to increse past 8 must have been incresed