V1.21 - Tern Freighter wont auto-trade.

[spankahontis]

V 1.21

Bug: Auto-trade doesn't work on the Tern Sentinel Freighter I just captured.
I've landed it on an Equipment Dock, given it a Captain, Full Crew compliment, given it all the software it needs.
But when I go into Behaviours to assign to the Captain auto-trade, it is greyed out.
It can do other things like dock and wait etc. but he wont auto-trade, despite having a 3 Star in Auto-Trade.

Unless that is the pre-requisite to use it as the Captain is a zero star rookie?

Savefile
http://www.mediafire.com/file/gok1c6gev ... e.zip/file

[Avius Caelestis]

I've had this happen but with random ships I've purchased. Like I'll buy 4 M class trader ships from a wharf, and of those 4 one of them won't have the autotrade default action selectable (it'll be greyed out). You can still force it by selecting the ship, right clicking on the map, and telling it to do autotrade. This will add a queue action to the list regardless of the blacked out state of the "default" option menu (but it adds all wares instead of letting you pick so you have to deselect stuff you don't want it trading). Unfortunately doesn't seem to level up doing it that way, but then again crew experience is kinda buggy atm anyway...

[jedensuscg]

V 1.21

Bug: Auto-trade doesn't work on the Tern Sentinel Freighter I just captured.
I've landed it on an Equipment Dock, given it a Captain, Full Crew compliment, given it all the software it needs.
But when I go into Behaviours to assign to the Captain auto-trade, it is greyed out.
It can do other things like dock and wait etc. but he wont auto-trade, despite having a 3 Star in Auto-Trade.

Unless that is the pre-requisite to use it as the Captain is a zero star rookie?

Savefile
http://www.mediafire.com/file/gok1c6gev ... e.zip/file

If the stars are grayed out, that is the required number of starts and you don't meet it. If the stars are yellow when you right click and try to select autotrade, then it could be a bug. You can see your pilots star rating from the crew section of the ships information screen.

[spankahontis]

V 1.21

Bug: Auto-trade doesn't work on the Tern Sentinel Freighter I just captured.
I've landed it on an Equipment Dock, given it a Captain, Full Crew compliment, given it all the software it needs.
But when I go into Behaviours to assign to the Captain auto-trade, it is greyed out.
It can do other things like dock and wait etc. but he wont auto-trade, despite having a 3 Star in Auto-Trade.

Unless that is the pre-requisite to use it as the Captain is a zero star rookie?

Savefile
http://www.mediafire.com/file/gok1c6gev ... e.zip/file

If the stars are grayed out, that is the required number of starts and you don't meet it. If the stars are yellow when you right click and try to select autotrade, then it could be a bug. You can see your pilots star rating from the crew section of the ships information screen.

Thanks for notifying me on that.. So this isn't a bug.
Sadly staff don't seem to improve their skills so finding a 3 Star or above Captain is a bit of a problem.

[jedensuscg]

V 1.21

Bug: Auto-trade doesn't work on the Tern Sentinel Freighter I just captured.
I've landed it on an Equipment Dock, given it a Captain, Full Crew compliment, given it all the software it needs.
But when I go into Behaviours to assign to the Captain auto-trade, it is greyed out.
It can do other things like dock and wait etc. but he wont auto-trade, despite having a 3 Star in Auto-Trade.

Unless that is the pre-requisite to use it as the Captain is a zero star rookie?

Savefile
http://www.mediafire.com/file/gok1c6gev ... e.zip/file

If the stars are grayed out, that is the required number of starts and you don't meet it. If the stars are yellow when you right click and try to select autotrade, then it could be a bug. You can see your pilots star rating from the crew section of the ships information screen.

Thanks for notifying me on that.. So this isn't a bug.
Sadly staff don't seem to improve their skills so finding a 3 Star or above Captain is a bit of a problem.

Ya, it seems no one is 100% sure on how to level up crew, or if you even can. I have heard from some people that if you land on a friendly capitol ship, you can find higher quality people board.

EDIT*
I did find this on the Steam forums, posted by an Egosoft employee under the tips and FAQ section.

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"Trading versus automatic trading?

Some players have noted that automatic trading for NPC ships who work for you is locked behind a relatively high skill of 3 stars for the pilot of that ship. 

To train the captain you should first trade manually remotely with the ship by assigning trade orders from the map menu. 

To do this, you can right click on wares in the map and select the ship you want to trade with, to buy and sell wares. This creates trade ORDERS which are always possible. 

The difference for AUTOTRADING is that the captain does not make the decision about what to buy and where to buy. This skill requires a better captain with 3 stars!"

So it appears you can level them up, now not sure if it's working or bugged, I have to check my trader to see where he is at, but honestly kinda don't want to boot up the game because of all the issues, I know I will probably have to dump my save at some point.