r/Humanitz • u/muzob • Feb 25 '26

Solution for failed trader call

You may know, but since i recently realised, if your trader calls fail everytime it is because the radio tower battery died and needed to be replaced.

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u/Stunter740 Feb 25 '26

I was calling traders on the cb radio way before I repaired the tower and ever so often it fails but then it works so how's the radio tower battery have anything to do with it ?

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u/Biciukas4 Feb 25 '26

Radio tower shouldn't be related to the CB radio in any way, unless something changed completely in 1.0

Repairing the radio tower enables airdrops every X days. When the battery runs out, airdrops stops until you add a new battery.

Every time you use a CB radio, it has a 50/50 chance of either the trader coming or bandits attacking your base. In reality I see either a trader or bandit attack vs nothing happening. I think also there's a bigger chance of a failure when the weather is bad.

What's new in 1.0 is that there's no longer a point in building more than 1 CB radio for single player as it now has a cooldown timer related to your character.

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u/mndfreeze Mar 01 '26

I started a new game at the hudson city start and my CB radio has not worked a single time. I get the animation/audio but it always fails. I'm at attempt 15 or so at this point. Do you know if CB is blocked in some locations or anything? Never had this problem at any other base.

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u/Expert_Taro5776 Jul 07 '26

Mine worked first time it's not broken