New resources like contracts completely ruin trade.

[GH6679]

These items are not actually required for production but are instead meant to enhance existing production efficiency. However, stations still treat them as essential resources and always consider them as "missing wares."

Due to how the (frustratingly dumb) X4 station AI works, if a station detects that any required ware is missing, it halts all trade operations until the missing ware is restocked — even if every other resource is already at maximum capacity.

Since these enhancement wares have extremely high consumption rates, they are almost always in a "shortage" state, which causes all stations to effectively stop trading.

I used AI translation in this article. I apologize if it seemed rude to you, which was not my intention.

[DeadAirRT]

It's not rude so no worries.

The problem lies with vanilla logic and the entire "shortage" problem that egosoft have created. The logic for it has always been poorly written with no fallback. I'll consider fixing it for them but no promises since I am currently not modding X4 at the moment.

[Vectorial1024]

The new shortage logic has its justification and use case, but clearly is not designed for this "secondary ware" feature. But I think we can fix this.

This could be as simple as excluding the relevant secondary wares from being considered as shortage. Then, station traders will not suddenly stop their tasks and find the secondary wares.