MK3 looses money.

[Holliday]

I confirmed my suspicions this afternoon. My traders have been doing fine until the last couple days. Now they actually loose money. I had 130.5 million credits in my account. I left it on SETA and went to the gym. Two hours later I came back and I had lost a million credits. They have earned me quite a bit up till now, but now they have gotten stuck on stupid. I have shut them all down as I am capable of loosing money without any help. What other hidden time bombs are programmed into this game?

[Deleted User]

send it to another sector and start trading again
I think the software buys what it can cheap and sells high but it is not guarateed to make a profit all the time
It could be that the markets in that sector are now exhausted/stocked high so no more profit can be made

[LV]

you lose money from leaving the game on seta not mk3

the trader will stop if there are no profits left in the sector

[Holliday]

you lose money from leaving the game on seta not mk3

the trader will stop if there are no profits left in the sector

I had about a dozen of them running at the same time. They were all active; not parked. They were making money until about two days ago. If running SETA costs money (idiotic) I would think I would have noticed it a long time ago. As far as I know you loose rank running SETA, not money. I would like to hear a definitive answer on that issue.
I have sat and watched my profits rise with SETA on and my traders working. Now all of a sudden I am loosing money. I fixed the problem with a trader script from another sorce.

[Jimmy Jazz]

You only loose money when using SETA for a longer time, like 2 hours

If you use it for a few minutes only you should be fine.

[Holliday]

I have watched the MK3 software loose money in a matter of a half hour. I have been running it for a LONG time, since the release. I just tried the Teladi auto trader script, but it makes the game run like a slide show. No, actually that is an insult to slide shows. It runs like crap, so that's gone.
As for SETA loosing money; I let it run all night once (I have tried a couple times but it crashes when you save, big suprise). I had 10x more credits when I got up the next morning. I made money.

[odin_grey]

I have opened up the message saying that it made 10 trade runs and made -10000 credits. that sucked

[Holliday]

I think I know where at least some of my money went. I checked all my traders (it turns out I had and found that two of them had bought high dollar weapons. They had between them at least 3 million credits worth of weapons they couldn?t seem to sell.

[The_Abyss]

I think I know where at least some of my money went. I checked all my traders (it turns out I had and found that two of them had bought high dollar weapons. They had between them at least 3 million credits worth of weapons they couldn?t seem to sell.

That is the most likely reason. Another NPC ship sold wares first and the trade your ship was going to make is no longer viable. The solution to this is just to move your autotrading ship to a new sector (preferably one where it can sell the goods it is stuck with unless you remove them yourself first...)

[tylium]

or when youchecked all your dolphins got an full load of crystals that can bring your acount to an very low number