Requested Caravan Never Came

[ahowe42]

I had a faction at -51 and thought I'd spend some silver to improve relations.  I paid a few times to get it up to -15, then invited them to send a caravan.  So I'm out 900+600 silver, but figured the invite, then doing business with them might improve relations even more.  They said they'd send the trade caravan in a few days, but it never came.  What gives?

Am I just a stupid pawn for trusting that if I sent the money, even though they're slightly negative, they'd actually live up to their promise?

So now, I'm completely out of Neutromine and Components, and haven't seen traders in like a year.  I installed the orbital trading station and had only a single f'ing ship in several years.  My colonists are screwed when stuff starts breaking :-(.

[Zhentar]

Trade caravans don't show up if it's above 45C or below -40C when they are supposed to arrive.

[ahowe42]

I'm in a temperate climate.  There has not been a heat wave in about a year., and cold snaps don't get that far below 0 :-).  That's not it...

[TheDirge]

Had the same problem