Working as intended?

[Zing Freelancer]

I intend to be a bit harsh and sarcastic now, so if you think that the coin only have one side, walk right past this thread.

Aulin Enterprises, a High Tech station in Aulin, become food supplier overnight.

Working as intended?


I am allied with Silver United Company, I logged on today only to find bulletin board looking like this:

Working as intended?
NOTE: One mission unobtainable due to low cargo capacity of my cobra.


Been running missions in Aulin, System Status have not changed in DAYS, not even by 1%.

Working as intended?



I am fully aware how difficult it is to make a game and I don't meant to say nothing bad against Frontier Development and their team. I believe they are working round the clock to get the game done and not just sitting around on their arses, sipping tea. In my black, corrupt heart I hope they will take some time off to celebrate Christmas with their families and relax from all the crunch they most likely have been doing past two weeks. But the game has problems and we did not create those problems.

Am I the only one who wants to help Elite Dangerous realize its potential?
How do we, players do that?

Both dev and player input massively appreciated.

 

[Kryoten]

This has been covered already and the devs are aware. The background sim AI traders went a little oo for cocoa puffs, and over saturated markets. This has resulted in so much surplus in stations that they proceed to sell the thing that they once demanded. Next week is apparently going to have the fix.

 

[Echostatic]

What kind of food was that mission asking for? If it wasn't something they had in supply, I could understand it. You can have all the meat, coffee and tea you want, you're still gonna need fruit and vegetables

 

[fergal]

I haven't done much trading in release, but over the last 2 days I have started a little.
As far as I can tell all the trading information presented is wrong. Relying on it, or trying to understand the logic behind it is a waste of time.

Don't get me wrong, the additional information is great, if it wasn't a lie.

I had a mission to find 3 personal weapons. I took it because personal weapons are everywhere, but they aren't I was thinking of non lethal weapons.
So I check the commodities market of the station I am in. It tells me where they import their personal weapons from.
I go to this other system, personal weapons are illegal in all its stations. No personal weapons in the system that supply them.

On my frantic search I see a station that exports slaves and imperial slaves, and they aren't illegal there. I go there to hopefully find some personal weapons. No personal weapons, also no slaves or imperial slaves.

Second example from today, I had a mission to go somewhere, I had a look at its system view and saw they import gold and palladium.
The place I am in says it exports both of them, and in fact it says it exports them to the other system. I can buy both for a few hundred under the galactic average, so I do.

I go to the other system, I make a 200-400cr loss per ton. The place that imports it buys for less than the place that exports to them sells it for.

Now this doesn't make any sense, except I just facilitated this backwards trade, so I suppose if everyone else does what I did, and used the game UI information this turns into some self fulfilling prophecy.

I don't expect there to be huge profits on a trade between 2 close systems, but if one exports something and the other imports it, and they are actually exporting and importing from each other the export price must be lower.

 

[Zing Freelancer]

What kind of food was that mission asking for? If it wasn't something they had in supply, I could understand it. You can have all the meat, coffee and tea you want, you're still gonna need fruit and vegetables

The unobtainable mission was for Fruit and Vegetables.
I completed a Coffee missions like 5 seconds after I took it.