A few days ago I built a Mobile drilling system complex in Priests Rings. It consists of:
1 Drilling System Factory
3x Large Soyfarm
3x Large Soyery
1 Ore mine
I hadn't even really finished buying transports to sell the drills and soja husks and I noticed that the free traders keep coming and buying the drills and husks. Selling like hot cakes so I just stuck to my energy transporters and let the free traders buy from me... but I never adjusted the Mobile drilling system price and its still at 77,908 each.
Why would free traders buy the drills at that price and then sell them to an equipment dock for 77,908 ?
Free Traders buying and selling for no profit? - mobile drilling system
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Disco Knight
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Carl Sumner
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They don't use credits, so they don't need profits.
The (player) UT script finds a trade run (by low, sell high) and does it. Thus, UT looks for buyer and seller simultaneously and only moves for profit. I guess the NPC trader script just fills the ship at "cheap" source first and then looks for a place to sell. When looking for buyer it no longer remembers how it got the load it carries.
The (player) UT script finds a trade run (by low, sell high) and does it. Thus, UT looks for buyer and seller simultaneously and only moves for profit. I guess the NPC trader script just fills the ship at "cheap" source first and then looks for a place to sell. When looking for buyer it no longer remembers how it got the load it carries.
Definite economical morass 
This is part of the reason X3 has a problem with the whole trading and operating factories thing.
The factories buy high and sell low-No profit!!
The Traders supply the factories but won't buy low because this would eliminate competition for the player.
Factories have very unusual requirements. Example: Computer Fab needs 600 Meatsteak Cahoonas per hour of operation
How many technician's does it take to run a Computer Fab, and what kinds of technician's require 600 x 1000 Meatsteak Burgers every hour to sustain their bodies. My thought is that they're some wierd gargantuan bioengineered beasts of burden
This is part of the reason X3 has a problem with the whole trading and operating factories thing.
The factories buy high and sell low-No profit!!
The Traders supply the factories but won't buy low because this would eliminate competition for the player.
Factories have very unusual requirements. Example: Computer Fab needs 600 Meatsteak Cahoonas per hour of operation
How many technician's does it take to run a Computer Fab, and what kinds of technician's require 600 x 1000 Meatsteak Burgers every hour to sustain their bodies. My thought is that they're some wierd gargantuan bioengineered beasts of burden