bbn wrote:Assigned traders really don't have anything to do as npcs grab all e-cells it manages to produce
Yes, station managers are biased to "pull" resources before "pushing" products - so it's a good idea to ensure that a station has all its resources covered in terms of freighters (usually M-size freighters are good enough, depending on where you are located.) With energy arrays, food is a secondary (ie. optional) resource, and you CAN in fact do without it, but it boosts production, so it's not a bad idea to have it stocked. However, such minuscule amounts are used, that an M-sized little freighter is more than ample, or you can opt for a ship that can carry both energy and container class freight, so it is able to export surplus, but that will happen VERY rarely.
bbn wrote: at price set to 5.
Consider letting the station manager auto-set your price - it then adjusts according to supply and demand. Results may or may not be better - when stocks fall low, your price will rise, and as your stocks fill up, the price lowers. NPCs will come buy at the price they are willing to pay, so the asking price stabilizes around the market-supported point. Of course, if you like to be more hands-on, you can tweak the price manually and see at what point the buyers stop coming, and adjust accordingly (perhaps you've already been doing this
) You have probably also already noticed that any changes made can take a while to take visible effect, so any tweaks need to be left in place to allow sufficient time to elapse in order to observe the result.
bbn wrote:The array is set in empty space near gemstone manufacture.
Interesting. I didn't realise that NPC buyers were so aware of player-offered goods in empty-space zones - I always, until my most recent playthrough, built in named zones, so this is good to know. Also, Far Out sector is already well supplied with energy from NPC stations, so it's good to hear you're managing to operate there effectively despite that.
bbn wrote:The only thing right now that annoys me is constant stream of messages about updates to my account (as I have around 15 automated traders set up with YAT). Anybody knows how to surpress those?
Sorry, I'm afraid not. As I don't use any mods, I don't get spammed by, say, YAT - however, stations of course do also send updates, and once you have a number of stations expect many updates (though they tend to come in waves - I guess there's some time-period update cycle at play.) Unfortunately, incoming video calls tend to interrupt/disrupt all sorts of important things, such as controls while in combat. There are sources and discussions around on how to minimize the impact of this, but as a quick tip: when a message comes in and you want to get rid of it (either because you are busy and need your controls back, or because you have heard that one 57,000 times already and simply want to just get on with it, already! heheh), you can try the following: clicking the mouse interrupts some incoming vidcalls, mostly when docked rather than when in flight; hitting the menu hotkey (default T) and then again to dismiss the menu works for some, though only in flight (not while docked); the interact key (default F, if I'm not mistaken) also stops some; to dismiss incoming notifications obscuring important info on your radar, hitting your radar mode-switch key (default I-can't-remember, as I changed it ages ago...) will clear that - odds are you will need to hit it twice, as you will probably want your radar mode to return to your preference.
Best of luck!
. Strangly it brings some constant income. Assigned traders really don't have anything to do as npcs grab all e-cells it manages to produce at price set to 5. I didn't really expect that. The array is set in empty space near gemstone manufacture. I noticed that sometimes shipyard there rind out of e-cells, but I didn't forsee such a demand. 
