Station Manager not working on HQ?

[Hexadecimal]

Set station manager up on HQ with a dolphin tanker that has shields and a jump drive.

With upgrades set to yes the tanker will automatically go and buy fighters and trading system.

Initially set HQ to have all required resources set as resource with max quantities, some are below set price within 1 jump. Dolphin just sits in station not moving. If I have it set to trade with a minimum storage quantity, it just repeatedly flies to the neighbouring crystal fab with an empty hold to 'sell silicon'.

Am I doing something wrong? surely it should be buying silicon up to my max quantity, not trying to sell silicon that it doesn't have? (below min quantity).

Going to be a real pain in the ass getting mats for the trans orbital gate manufacturing if I have to manually control the traders, talking 20+ trips just for energy sells with the dolphin tanker! an armoured transport would be quicker but still hassle.

Please help! lol

[Snafu_X3]

Have you a) given the station some cash to work with, & b) checked your 'incoming ships' list? ISTM that with your prices such as they are, pretty much any NPC trader within range will auto-reserve any cash (& station stock) your ship might try to trade, thus negating any of its actions..

[Hexadecimal]

Thanks for the reply, sadly doesn't seem to be the case:

Given 1.5mil cr.

Prices left at average (resources available in nearby sectors)

Had a total of 2 npc trades over the space of an hour or so (real time mostly Seta)

Every time checked there were no incoming ships.

Cash depleted due to the extortionately high cost of the manager on the HQ but no resource ever made it past a few hundred and the dolphin never moved.

I have since removed the manager and begun manual trading with an armoured transport and a 15k hold but it's going to be a long grind to getting a gate operational. Dolphin is slowly working resource by resource on Buy ware for best price.

Would still be nice to discover why it isn't working though

[X2-Illuminatus]

Does the Dophin have Navigation Command Software Mk1 and Trade Command Softwares Mk1 and Mk2 installed?

[Hexadecimal]

Trade command Mk2 possibly not. Something to try in the future! The survival guide does specify that 1 or 2 will enable trade duties though