[#5338][Bug] v8.0, ships trading for other ships, group role is trader instead of mimic

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[#5338][Bug] v8.0, ships trading for other ships, group role is trader instead of mimic

Post by Admiral Kirk »

Hi,

I had a trade station with around 30 trade ships. The station got destroyed. One of the trade ships is now the leader (with setting automatic trade) of the others. Interestingly, those ships are now trading for the leader according to the group type => trader😄

However, adding new ships to the same group makes them only following the leader, but not trading. If the added ships are set to mimic the leaders behaviour, it seems that they're trading and they trade different items than the leader (which I'd expect in this case), but it needs a separate group. Since I've no way to reliably check if both behaviours are exactly the same (I hope Egosoft can clarify), I assume there's a bug, it's just about where the bug is:

a) station is destroyed ==> one of the station traders gets the leader of the other traders ==> group behaviour should be mimic instead of former trader (provided that the leader gets automatic trading setting)
b) it's intended to be able to assign ships to other ships as traders, so it just needs to be fully implemented
c) neither a nor b, it's not intended for ships to trade for other ships

I like the possibility to have ships trading for another ship, so my favourite would be b), followed by a) even if mimic equals trade then, but definitively not c)

Regards
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Re: [Bug] v8.0, ships trading for other ships, group role is trader instead of mimic

Post by CBJ »

We're not going to be able to investigate without the information requested in the forum rules, including a link to an unmodified savegame demonstrating what you are describing. The rules appear at the top of the forum, and again right in front of you when you click on New Topic.
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Admiral Kirk
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Re: [Bug] v8.0, ships trading for other ships, group role is trader instead of mimic

Post by Admiral Kirk »

Hello CBJ,

here's a link to the savegame: https://limewire.com/d/u6v4v#bKvEFPgw17

As mentioned, game version is v8.00, build 590967, german language. No mods or other changes. Game start is Project Genesis. The trader fleet mentioned is fleet #7.

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