Well, since I posted this I traded around Aulin using only the import/export list and the galactic average of the market at each stations and traveling around. I must say, it's getting sane. I'm not losing money right now and visiting a random list of stations. It seems to get better by the hour.
FD has issued a small server-side patch that should give us traders a bit of air. Message from Michael Brookes Partial quote: Fixed a bug that was sometimes causing a market to flip from being a net consumer to a net producer when the AI traders supplied significantly more into that market than the ...
I contacted a Hauler and a Cobra in two different systems yesterday. Both were circling a star so fuel scooping is perfectly possible :D I don't think anyone here has hard feelings against "not replying". Sometimes you're busy, other times when you try to reply the other party has activate...
Did you really expect that it was finished and done after Gamma? At the end of Gamma we still had long lists of issues. And besides the lists, I'm happy they continue development and didn't shut the development department at release.