[BUG][1.50] Autotrader not working

[Gnorog]

Autotrader seems to be stuck.
I made it very simple for the not so intelligent autotrader: only one ware (hull plates, which are produced for min price with my own station), buy and sell sectors to zero.

Expected behaviour: autotrader should buy at my own station for min price and sell at the wharf in the same sector, which has a huge buy order for hull plates.

Actual behaviour: autotrader is flying in an erratic pattern around its start position and is buying/selling nothing.

I tried to fiddle with the "restrict other factions" function in the logical plan and the manager setting. Only result was that I started the next galaxy war, because everyone and his grandma was buying at my station (which is in HOP-space), with one exception: my own autotrader.

[Kryten42]

maybe thats a good thing, all my Traders who have Hull Parts in their list tend to get stuck with the cargo full of Hull parts and unable to sell them by themselfes :C

[Gnorog]

I tested a little bit more...

With "distribute wares" the trader is buying from my own station, with autotrade he won't touch it.
After I lifted the "don´t trade with other factions" restrictions my station traders sold enough hull parts to the local HOP tradestation that this stupid autotrader was buying from the tradestation and selling to the wharf.
The autotrade script seems to be running but apparently doesn't recognizes my own sell offers.

[alt3rn1ty]

Is your issue similar to any of the points Vim Razz found out, which are now in a bug report here ..

viewtopic.php?f=192&t=411886

[lewdog64]

Note about selling to Warfs or shipyards. They don't always buy these items, so auto trading in just items they buy is not advisable. I have had multiple times my traders stuck with no where to sell to. Had to dump the load and remove that item from the traders trade list.

[Gnorog]

Note about selling to Warfs or shipyards. They don't always buy these items, so auto trading in just items they buy is not advisable. I have had multiple times my traders stuck with no where to sell to. Had to dump the load and remove that item from the traders trade list.

"Expected behaviour: autotrader should buy at my own station for min price and sell at the wharf in the same sector, which has a huge buy order for hull plates."

"autotrader was buying from the tradestation and selling to the wharf"

No buy orders at the wharf were not the problem...
It's fine if the autotrader is idling if the wharf/shipyard have no buy orders. He had only one job, keeping these two stocked with hull parts and he epically failed.