Pure Solar Power plant wants to BUY EC's at max price. Why? (Save)

[Scoob]

Hey all,

So, I set up my HQ as a Solar Power Plant. I'm sure I'll ask more of it in the future, but for now, that's all it produces.

As it hadn't made many EC's yet, no one was buying from it - it still wants to sell for the automatic price of 21 credits - so I've left it so build up reserves. I checked on it just now and I noticed two ships incoming, great, some buyers. Erm, nope. This station has added, by its self, a BUY order for over one point five MILLION EC's and is offering 21 credits for each EC!

As this BUY offer was added by the game, not by me, there's no "Remove Buy Offer" option, so this station is, to all intents and purposes, broken. Sure, I can start overriding the Price and buy amounts of course, but that's not the point.

We need to be able to OVERRIDE *ALL* Buy and Sell offers at our stations. Period. So often my stations that produces LOTS of wares - all for my own consumption - decide they want to Buy something I over-produce, which saps profits. However, I've never see the most simple station - a Solar Power Plant - suffer from this issue before.

Has anyone else noticed this?

Edit: I tweaked the Buy values so it'd not buy any except at 10cr - far from ideal - and I reduced the automatic Buy amount to 1 - the lowest. Did it help? NOPE! There is now no Sell Offer at all for the EC's the station has produced. This is broken.

Note: my Non-HQ SPP in another sector is working just fine.

Note 2: I think the other wares I've added to the HQ - for research purposes - has confused the game - it thinks it needs to Buy EC's even though it produces them. Whoops!

Edit 2: I've added a save file, here. This is from after I've played around to try to get rid of that insane Buy offer. Despite my effort, this station has REMOVED the Sell Offer entirely, having set EC's incorrectly as an intermediate ware. We NEED more control, especially at the HQ now it needs other wares for research to function. It's basically broken as it stands if the player wants to actually produce stuff for sale at their HQ's as well as do research.

Scoob.

[Bastelfred]

That's because your storage is empty.
Set the minimum amount to be buy up to 1. Otherwise the AI will always buy up to the automatic amount.

[Scoob]

That's because your storage is empty.
Set the minimum amount to be buy up to 1. Otherwise the AI will always buy up to the automatic amount.

Erm, nope. There's over 150k of EC's in there that the station has produced. I don't want it to Buy any EC's and adjusting that value to 1 (never Buy in effect) - that's the only way I could stop it Buying what it actually produces.

The UI is inadequate, it will not generate a Sell Order as it should. I'm scrapping the EC production at the HQ until this is fixed. I'll use it just for research, manually supplying what it needs.

Basically, adding Production to the HQ, when you're also Storing various other wares for research, breaks the station's ability to Sell some wares. When I didn't produce ANYTHING, I could happily add or remove both Buy AND Sell orders for any ware I placed on the station. If we had fine control over ALL Buy and Sell orders (I've requested this before, some time ago) then I'd be able to fully customise what this station Buys and/or Sells, irrespective of what it may or may not actually produce.

Edit: Interestingly, after waiting some time - while I typed the reply above - my HQ gained a "Create Sell Offer" button it did NOT have previously. I wonder why the delay before the UI catches up? I'd exited the station entirely several times, so it's not like I'd just been sat on the Logical Station Overview page all that time. Weird.

Edit 2: Lol, I just realised what happened. I gained the "Create Sell Offer" button, the moment the "Energy Cell Production" Modules started to be dismantled. So, I can only Sell EC's if I don't produce them. That's silly.

Scoob.

[Bastelfred]

The game is modified, which mods do you use?