How are the items purchased via comm delivered to the Skunk?

[jelf]

Sorry if this question has been asked before, I did a brief search and did not find anything relevant on this.
So if I comm'ed a person on a docking station and purchased some stuff via comm, how is it delivered to my Skunk. I've tried purchasing some stuff through this way but the items never get delivered to my ship.

Many thanks!

[RAVEN.myst]

A very high-speed delivery drone brings the goods or personnel to you (or, conversely, carries them away from you if you sell remotely). I think it's possible to sabotage an incoming delivery by jumping in a highway or by capital-ship boost before the items are delivered, if quite far away from the station you are transacting with, but other than that, I've never had items/personnel fail to arrive.

Despite the carrier drone being very fast, if you are at the limit of remote transacting range, it can take a little while for the items to be delivered (perhaps up to 20 secs, maybe even a little longer, but I don't remember clearly), so you need to be patient - don't expect the stuff to materialise immediately.

[Ezarkal]

Yes, you can sabotage the delivery by switching zones or by entering highway. It happened to me a few times in the past. You get a failed delivery message when it happens. (It's quite a shame to lose a 5/5/5 employee that way).

Also, note that every time you buy a trade item/drone/missile/marine from comms, there's a 2.5k cr delivery fee that's added to the total price. Selling is free, though. XD

[zazie]

I think jelf has another problem: He failed to "Confirm" his trade at the end of purchasing- or selling-actions.
As an example:
If you order 12 Starflash-missiles remotely, you "buy" the wares from an Arm's Dealer [spelling?]. During this action, you change the amount of bought missiles with the slider (or the cursor keys) and press OK. You COULD continue and sell (or buy) some other missiles, but you mustn't. But at the end of buying/selling, you MUST confirm the transaction(s), pressing 4 on your keyboard or klicking it with your mouse. Only then you can hear and see the fast drones for delivery moving from or to your ship.

If you do several transactions in a row it might happen that you see the amount of a ware on your ship in the left column as this example:

23 (+12)

That means: You already have 23 Starflashes and you are awaiting a delivery of another 12 pieces. Now you can buy more (if available) or sell all 35. The selling drone will only leave, when the buying drone has arrived, of course.

[Snafu_X3]

If you do several transactions in a row it might happen that you see the amount of a ware on your ship in the left column as this example:

23 (+12)

I've had this happen several times when buying out a zone's worth of (eg) Scrap Metal. It's always worth waiting for the last 'clunk-hiss' of a drone delivery before moving elsewhere, if that option's possible (ie not under attack)

[spankahontis]

A very high-speed delivery drone brings the goods or personnel to you (or, conversely, carries them away from you if you sell remotely). I think it's possible to sabotage an incoming delivery by jumping in a highway or by capital-ship boost before the items are delivered, if quite far away from the station you are transacting with, but other than that, I've never had items/personnel fail to arrive.

Despite the carrier drone being very fast, if you are at the limit of remote transacting range, it can take a little while for the items to be delivered (perhaps up to 20 secs, maybe even a little longer, but I don't remember clearly), so you need to be patient - don't expect the stuff to materialise immediately.

I've accidentally left a zone before my staff has arrived and recieved a "Failed Crew" message.
Guess there isn't one for item trading.

[RAVEN.myst]

A very high-speed delivery drone brings the goods or personnel to you (or, conversely, carries them away from you if you sell remotely). I think it's possible to sabotage an incoming delivery by jumping in a highway or by capital-ship boost before the items are delivered, if quite far away from the station you are transacting with, but other than that, I've never had items/personnel fail to arrive.

Despite the carrier drone being very fast, if you are at the limit of remote transacting range, it can take a little while for the items to be delivered (perhaps up to 20 secs, maybe even a little longer, but I don't remember clearly), so you need to be patient - don't expect the stuff to materialise immediately.

I've accidentally left a zone before my staff has arrived and recieved a "Failed Crew" message.
Guess there isn't one for item trading.

On a couple of occasions I even had worse than that, in that the passenger berth that would have been occupied by that staffer became occupied and unavailable even though the passenger never arrived. Not sure what version that was in, may have been pre-4.0