bug or tweak needed AI sells to Wharf leaves shipyard with queue

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lordmuck
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bug or tweak needed AI sells to Wharf leaves shipyard with queue

Post by lordmuck »

Hey,

I noticed the AI and my own traders selling to the ANT wharf skipping the Shipyard which is closest to the gate on entry to the sector. The shipyard has a queue of stuff to be built, the wharf does not and has enough stock to build a number of ships. I checked as I queued ships up to be built until I saw that they needed materials, I did not pursue the build as all I wanted to see how many ships they could produce which was about 8 pulsars. The Shipyard had constructors on queue and some other bits 6 ships in total. The Shipyard was in need of the same materials that the AI and my traders were selling to the Wharf.

Clearly there is something wrong as the demand was obviously much higher for the Shipyard. This has been ongoing for a few hours now, no seta.
This exact same issue is happening to the Taladi but the other way round, AI sells to Shipyard with 0 in queue and can build if you ordered something, the AI and my traders would also sell to the EQ dock, but never touch the Wharf.

I had also queued up some Peregrine "bombers" and they still did not deliver anything, I had to manually direct my traders to buy and sell to them.

AI priorities need looking into
strask412
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Re: bug or tweak needed AI sells to Wharf leaves shipyard with queue

Post by strask412 »

I think the choice of which stations to sell to depends mostly on the buy offers that the stations make. If the wharf is offering more money for the raw materials than the shipyard is offering, that could explain what you are seeing.

Mostly I think the value of the buy offers is based on demand, as one would expect. But there are other factors as well. For example if you spent some time scanning the wharf and got a commission from a data leak, that could be improving the prices your ships are getting at the wharf, causing them to prefer it over the shipyard.

Or it could just be a bug. :)
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lordmuck
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Re: bug or tweak needed AI sells to Wharf leaves shipyard with queue

Post by lordmuck »

Yeah I guess the AI would sell to the highest bidder. Dont think I scanned all too much like you said tho.

I can only suggest that these wharfs and shipyards have better AI management and as such buy / make more subordinates or the faction it self gets some sort of trigger mats < x% dedicate more traders to the wharf shipyard as like the player would do the sales manually to get the stock up, so they build their stuff ..

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