My station refuses to sell to me.

[Scoob]

Hey all,

So, my Construction Shop has a load of MUCH NEEDED reinforced metal plating it's produced. However, said RMP does NOT show on the stations for sale list.

I thought at first that maybe one of the ships from my URV Forge had decided to snag a load, but that's not the case. NPC's cannot buy any, as it's restricted, so I don't know what the problem is.

Basically I'm stuck, I need the RMP to extend the station, but am not allowed to buy my own produce. Total pain in the rear.

Anyone else seen this? Is there a viable work-around, or is it back to save editing to get the ware and hope that my Construction Shop isn't nerfed from now on?

Here is a save, just check the Trade Offers at my Construction Shop in this Zone, nothing there, yet check the stock levels and you'll see plenty of RMP.

Cheers,

Scoob.

[IRaven]

Well you will laugh, i did check your savegame.

Your Construction Ship has reserved all Reinforced Metal Plating for Trade.
So the Station cant sell it to anyone else but to the one who reserved it.

There will either be a Container Ship of your Construction Shop loading on those wares soon and carry it to your Construction Vessel or we have just found another Bug. (A Construction Vessel isnt supposed to Trade if deployed)

Did you give Ships to your Architect?
If not wait and see if a Container Ship of your Construction Shop will eventually load those goods and carry it over.

[btw: if you delete mods from your savegame to get Egosoft support you should make sure not to delete the "Patch Line".]

[Scoob]

Well you will laugh, i did check your savegame.

Your Construction Ship has reserved all Reinforced Metal Plating for Trade.
So the Station cant sell it to anyone else but to the one who reserved it.

There will either be a Container Ship of your Construction Shop loading on those wares soon and carry it to your Construction Vessel or we have just found another Bug. (A Construction Vessel isnt supposed to Trade if deployed)

Did you give Ships to your Architect?
If not wait and see if a Container Ship of your Construction Shop will eventually load those goods and carry it over.

[btw: if you delete mods from your savegame to get Egosoft support you should make sure not to delete the "Patch Line".]

Hey IRaven,

Most odd! Thanks for trying the game though.

The Construction Ship was never set to trade at all, it's simply been there to build up the Construction Shop. Always the provision of wares has been my job, never assigned to the Architect, and the Architect has never been assigned any ships.

No container ship ever showed up, I've waited quite some time. Managed to manually provide some RMP from elsewhere, but the option to buy RMP from my Construction Shop is still non-existant.

Don't run any mods, so haven't touched the patch line - whatever that might be lol.

Interestingly, during build stages of the nearby Cell Fab Matrix, the Construction Shop would regularly send one of its Rahanas (Container) freighters to drop off RMP. Of course this triggered the "not more than one trade at a time" bug equally as frequently! *sigh*

I'm hoping whatever trade is locked up, will time out at some point. If not, possibly I can edit my save to fix the broken trade order from the Construction Ship.

Edit: Well, I ended up manually deleting the rogue trade order from the stations list. As you said, the trade was issued by the Architect on the Construction Vessel that works for - and was actively upgrading - the Construction Shop. Why it did this when, as always, *I* provide the resoruces I don't know.

I wonder if a version of this bug is in any way responsible for stopping other trades? I.e. those controlled (in theory) by Managers, where the issues is less obvious...hmmm.

Cheers,

Scoob.

[mattek1979]

I've seen this problem as well. As far as I could see, it's probably some other station's (probably one of your own, it was so for me) ship taking the buy order, putting it into queue but never gets to it.

[Scoob]

Actually, if you see my edit, IRaven was 100% right. For whatever (bugged) reason, the Architect on my Construction Vessel had reserved all the RMP at my Construction Shop, despite NOT having any funds, being asked NOT to handle resourcing and NOT having any ships assigned. Equally, confirming this must be a bug, there is NO way to cancel this order that was never requested. Thankfully, a quick save edit to remove the offending trade fixed everything.

Cheers,

Scoob.

[spankahontis]

I had to restrict trade because there was loads of trade requests and they weren't delivering to my Hardware Supplier.
It was like a trade embargo was in place