Trader

2022-01-02T19:09:04Z

85.191.68.217: Figured out when the trader bug happens

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== About == 
[[File:Trader Preview.png|800x494px|A Trader]]
 [[Traders]] are NPC that can be called via [[Computer]] with installed a [[Motherboard (Communication)]].
 
 They will buy and sell any kind of object with the player:
 [[File:TraderPanelView.png|400x471px|Trading with a trader]]
 After the player start an interaction with a [[Trader]], the game will open a GUI where the player will select the item to buy or to sell.
 The same interface is used to tell to the [[Trader]] to depart.

== Requirements == 
To call a [[Trader]] are necessary the following things connetted to the same network:
* A [[Computer]] with installed a [[Motherboard (Communication)]] (for call the [[Trader]]).
* A [[Satellite Dish]] (for track the [[Trader]])
* A [[Vending Machine]] or [[Vending Machine Refrigerated]], without one connected and powered the trader will refuse to land.
* A [[Landing Pad]].
* Track a [[Trader]] signal with the [[Satellite Dish]].

== Notes == 
* For trade a player should have [[Credit Card]] in any slot of his character inventory (isn't neccesary that is placed in the [[Credit Card]] slot of his suit), otherwise any attempt to trade will return an error message with "You do not have enough money to complete this transaction!".
* If a character have more than one [[Credit Card]], the trade will use the last in the inventory order.
* Seems that [[Traders]] will buy any item that is placed in a connected [[Vending Machine]] or [[Vending Machine Refrigerated]] in the same network of the [[Lading Pad]].
* Can be more than one [[Vending Machine]] or [[Vending Machine Refrigerated]] connected to the same [[Landing Pad]].
* [[Traders]] will refuse to land if there isn't any [[Vending Machine]] or [[Vending Machine Refrigerated]] connected to the [[Landing Pad]], or if no one is powered.
* Sell prices are always more low than the buy value.
* Because [[Traders]] buy anything from the player, some items are exploitable to gain big amout of money, like food, or [[Motherboard (Sorter)]] (seems to be worth 1500€/$ or more, that is an evident bug).
* Prices of any item depends from the kind of trader.
* If a [[Credit Card]] is sold to a [[Trader]] the balance within the card is ignored, this means that selling a [[Credit Card]] with a balance greater than 0 will cause the player to lose money.
* [[Traders]] can't land or depart during storm.
* The [[trader]] will lock and go into a bugged state if you add things to the vending machine after a trader is requested to land. The bug can be seen by the trading GUI not opening (throws a NullReferenceException), save and reload or dismount the [[Landing Pad]] (that will make the [[trader]] depart) will fix the bug.

 [[Satellite_Tracking|This]] is an example of traking setup with a [[Integrated Circuit (IC10)]] code for automate the process.
 Alternatively on this [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLMuhO9CLZc Youtube Video] there is a good explanation of
Saddamo De Beers.
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