[QUESTION]: Can't get M3 Mule to work on DC station, same setup works on another DC?

[SteelCityColt]

I'm trying to get to grips with Mules & Warehouses properly but keep having issues with M3 mules. I have a distribution warehouse, that has a M2 feeding it from a factory in the same sector. Ware levels are about 20% filled all round.

Try as I might I can't get an M3 mule to distribute wares from this warehouse to any trading stations. The warehouse is set to the preset of 'Distribution Centre'. Either the mule sits there searching for trades, or if I lower static storage enough to trigger goes into an endless dock/execute trade/undock loop. When it gets into this loop it will buy a ware, and straight away sell it back to the DC. Rinse and repeate. If I set it to an M2 between the distribution warehouse and the TS, it instead starts ferrying wares from the factory to the distribution warehouse.

I have a similar setup in anothe sector, and the DC M3s correctly ferry wares to the TS's with the same buy/sell prices set.

[bhayden53]

The distribution mule is really only still around for historical purposes; the script is pretty poor and the functionality it provided is much better handled by either station mules or supply mules. I would suggest avoiding using the distribution mule if you're struggling to get it working. The sliders are really picky.