Trade Ships for Noone

[SurvivoroftheNoobs]

Trade ships use to be a thing now it seems like they are gone completely. Its been 4 years and I have yet to see even 1. I know their around I got a few on another game. Is there some way to increase the chance of them spawning in? Something besides a mod would be nice.

[jmababa]

https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=19068.0 use this more trade ships mod works with a15

[ArguedPiano]

I have a few questions, please bear with me because it may be something simple:

Do you have a Comms Console built someplace that is accessible?
Does the Comms Console have power?
Do you have at least one Orbital Trade Beacon built?
Does your trade beacon have power?

I know they seem few and far between, but 4 years is most definitely too long. I tend to see one every season-ish or so.

[Listy]

Trade ships use to be a thing now it seems like they are gone completely. Its been 4 years and I have yet to see even 1. I know their around I got a few on another game. Is there some way to increase the chance of them spawning in? Something besides a mod would be nice.

Yeah, they can be extremely rare at times. If not overly rare in the normal story teller. But when I switched to Randy things returned to normal.

If you don't want to do that however. Dev mode> Refresh all trade ships generates 4-5 ships immediately.

[jmababa]

Trade ships use to be a thing now it seems like they are gone completely. Its been 4 years and I have yet to see even 1. I know their around I got a few on another game. Is there some way to increase the chance of them spawning in? Something besides a mod would be nice.

Yeah, they can be extremely rare at times. If not overly rare in the normal story teller. But when I switched to Randy things returned to normal.

If you don't want to do that however. Dev mode> Refresh all trade ships generates 4-5 ships immediately.

Especially phobe chillax cause as time passes she increases in time between disasters meaning including trade ships

[Wanderer_joins]

Trade ships are rare, but they are a source of bionics which are rather OP.

[Canute]

You can get bionics from caravan's too.

[ReZpawner]

If you manage to take them alive, you can also sometimes get bionics from raiders through surgery.

[Wanderer_joins]

I mean, it seemed to me trade ships proposed more bionic parts than caravans overall. But i'll check.

[Bozobub]

That's not surprising.  Trade ships nearly always carry far more stuff; of course they have more of any given trade good, when they carry it, than you are likely to see from overland traders.