Smart Chips factory is always at a loss due to wrong prices - Misunderstanding of production quantity

[darthraven]

I am having trouble getting my smart chips to sell when there is a massive demand for them

Set up independent autotraders to sell your smart chips (not station traders)

As your smart chips fabs are in the same sector as the demand set buy gates & sell gates to 0, wares traded smart chips only, plus an L trader works well as it’s close by

I am having this same problem, massive demand, no one buys the chips. Setting the traders to not affiliate with station, and auto trade smart chips, they do nothing. My station is full of the chips, and some stations demand 100k+, but no one will buy and only manual trades would work, way too tedious to do one at a time.

What price did you set the chips to sell for, I find if you set the price above 200 they won't sell, but 200 and lower and I sell it all really quickly. The AI seems to demand a certain profit per ware to make it trade it.

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I am having this same problem, massive demand, no one buys the chips. Setting the traders to not affiliate with station, and auto trade smart chips, they do nothing. My station is full of the chips, and some stations demand 100k+, but no one will buy and only manual trades would work, way too tedious to do one at a time.

AT's should work fine like that, set 0 buy max sell distance and only chips as their ware.
But what you need is more close to distribute wares - ofc if single entities need much higher volume then your trader's cargo space then it shouldn't matter much which script you use.

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Set up independent autotraders to sell your smart chips (not station traders)

As your smart chips fabs are in the same sector as the demand set buy gates & sell gates to 0, wares traded smart chips only, plus an L trader works well as it’s close by

I am having this same problem, massive demand, no one buys the chips. Setting the traders to not affiliate with station, and auto trade smart chips, they do nothing. My station is full of the chips, and some stations demand 100k+, but no one will buy and only manual trades would work, way too tedious to do one at a time.

What price did you set the chips to sell for, I find if you set the price above 200 they won't sell, but 200 and lower and I sell it all really quickly. The AI seems to demand a certain profit per ware to make it trade it.

Exactly this - leave it to set the pricing automatically for best results...