Player Stations will not trade bug (Need help to confirm)

[SyberSmoke]

I have run into an issue. It appears that when building stations, ships will not be able to trade with that station if the station has a standing drone request.

Situation: I built three stations in DeVries: Solar Array, H20 Addiditives, Foodstuffs fac. Each station was built up to be functional. But at the end of it I put a request into each station to buy ten cargo hauler drones.

It was at this point things went sideways. Ships assigned to other stations would not be able to dock with other stations. The Rahanas (Energy) (Both with ten cargo drones added at the time they were built) would go to the solar array, initiate trade, then suddenly cancel and fly off.

This would happen to any non assigned ship (the Sequana assigned to the water fac traded normally). This behavior ended once I purchased cargo hauler drones in Albion and traded them to the stations.

But I need confirmation of this as I do not know if it is from a mod or vanilla. I do not have any auto traders and was using vanilla assignments. But I wish to be sure that this is found properly and dealt with.

Note, I was watching this happen OOS. My stations are in Molten Archon and I was watching the ships perform this while in Glaring Truth.

[SyberSmoke]

I believe I have a working theory. I believe the managers on the stations were trying to sell the cargoliter URV's that the ships had installed in their drone bays. The ship would go in to make the trade, it could not trade those drones, and would cancel the trade and break away.

The manager would then try to make the same trade again. This blocked most other trades except for those ships assigned to a specific task, like mining. Since these ships were not trading, they would mine, drop of wares, then mine again as normal.