Purchasing from traders

[Forevener]

Hello!
Why nobody trying to sell needed items to my hangar? It's have quite enough funds (~$750000), pretty low amount of materials, and people won't come in to sell - just to repair and buy some cheap crap (Fusion Cells @ $12000, CompComp @ $1200, etc.). Heh, hangar buys Scrap Metal @ $500, and scavengers are selling these to Trade Central @ $220! Maniacs.
Someone got any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Mode: Offline.
Place: Downtown 05.
Version: UIM.06.

[Pilot]

It might have been possible in one of the last Enhanced versions, manufacturing was never fully developed in the UIM upgrades. Scavengers never sell to anything but the trade centers, though they may or may not keep some things they scavenge, I've never seen them take a pack of missiles home, much less survive long enough too.

[Forevener]

Hm-m, interesting stuff. I've not using Enchanced due to broken pathfinding in the very last version (as I remember). Can you advise me a most stable version? Or should I just turn 'New AI' option off in the latest version... but it did not help last time.

Edit:
Oh, a new version of Enchanced, developed by gmcjimmy is a solution - am I right?

[Captain Zedo]

I delved into this problem last year and came up with the source of the problem: The game's trading centers, like Trade Central, don't list your offerings. This means that AI traders don't see your bargains.

I've tried several patches claiming to fix this and none have worked. I have *not* tried Enhanced, but will do so soon. In the meantime, it pays to produce things that you can have your hired pilots sell to local businesses.

[Forevener]

I've made a huge money incredibly easy this time.
1. Started as 'Agitator'. Fusion Cell? Huh, looks like cheating! Ok, fine.
2. Completed some easy ($500-$1000) jobs from police with ease.
3. Bought Largest Pod and Salvage Drone.
4. Flying somewhere about Riverside-Gamma, found one pirate with Narcotics. Then found another one. I thought there was couple of that thing, but occasionally there was 30.
5. Sold 30 Narcotics at Flyer's Retreat and got ~90000. Nice surprise.

And such amount for money is enough to setup Metal production, then shortly Component and Munitions (so what I did). That was very easy.

[Pilot]

As far as Enhanced I'm using the Dec 05,2005 version and Enhanced2's July 24,2005 with gmcjimmy's manufdat which which seems to get rid of the crash on targeting AI's with certain cargo. I wonder if that could have been because the amount of cargo exceeded the amount allowed by a pod's space? Example: Instead of a large pod carrying thirty narcs it had 31+ and crashed the game when targeted with (or without) certain software installed.

You also have to have the modified version of the hardwarw.exe to use enhanced, your mileage may vary but my game crashes at Day 1, 09:29:55-59 when I started new games with gmcjimmy's enhanced, the manufdat works great though.

I also found it interesting that Cabs would even go the distance to buy Fusion Cells in Enhanced. Guess they don't like to keep their passengers waiting when they only need half a charge anyway.

[Forevener]

Thanks for the tip. I'll put manufdat from gmcjimmy's to the latest stable 'enchanced', while his 'enchanced' is crashing.

Edit:
Whops, switching targets crashed the game.

[Pilot]

Yea their is a certain cargo? Or amount of cargo? That may be the reason for the crashing.

[Forevener]

Specific cargo, I presume.
Hm, let's make it easy. Can you pack all your enchanced files and send it to me? Or upload somewhere. 'Stable Enchanced Pack!'
I'm using 'hwe_uim06_20050410' and '05.07.27.enhanced2'. Second works well, first too - but it's quite old. 'hwe_dev_econmod_latest' have targeting-cargo issue.

[Pilot]

Install all of gmcjimmy's files then drop this in there and overwrite the other one.

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[Forevener]

Thank you.

Edit:
Oh, crash on particular target.
What was your installation order? Hardwar + UIM.06 + gmcjimmy's files (econmod.dll, enchanced, lwdat, itemdat, manufdat) + this 'enchanced'? And can you upload your 'enchanced2'?

[Pilot]

Here you are, I find PDI to be a most useful TI command.

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[Forevener]

Thanks.
I have same version. Hm-m, how can I get rid of these crashes...