Is there a way to make a mining cluster station?

[Adalphage]

Hello guys!

I wanted to make a station which receive ores from autominers asigned to it and sell that ores to other NPC / player stations, acting like a mining cluster (so I won't have 60 autominers in my list of ships bothering me). I tried making a station to accomplish that, with some docks and solid / liquid storages, but I can't manage to make it work.

It's impossible to assing miners as autotraders (for solid / liquid trade), despite the fact they can act as autotraders when solo in the map (you can give them the command). I tried to set manual buy and sell for the ores, but if you put a buy limit your miners assigned to the station won't mine too. And the manager is not making sell offers despite I put a sell offer and he has materials in exceed to do it. So...

Someone has tried this and worked around to make it work? Or it is just impossible?

Thanks!

[Imperial Good]

I wanted to make a station which receive ores from autominers asigned to it and sell that ores to other NPC / player stations, acting like a mining cluster (so I won't have 60 autominers in my list of ships bothering me). I tried making a station to accomplish that, with some docks and solid / liquid storages, but I can't manage to make it work.

This is because such a station is flawed by design. Why sell mineables to the NPCs when instead one could sell refined mineable container wares instead?

It is a station so can house any number of refinery modules to convert mined wares into container wares. The container wares can then be transported and sold automatically by container trade subordinates. Trade subordinates are much more efficient at distribution since when loading for small trades they will load up to half their storage and then work to distribute that. If one supplies the station with workforce then it will even generate one profit in the form of bonus products.

[pref]

Remember reading some complaints about station assigned ships selling resources.

Maybe if you attach a single refinery for each resource it will have a low stock requirement and the manager will sell your stuff?
Never tried it, just a guess.

[Adalphage]

Maybe if you attach a single refinery for each resource it will have a low stock requirement and the manager will sell your stuff?
Never tried it, just a guess.

Already tested before making the post, doesn't work.