Seriously ditch Inara, stop using 3rd party tools/sites, its not going to help you at all, get out there and look, everything you need to find this stuff is IN GAME.
I have 3 stations that regularly have 4000+ stocks
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I have 3 stations that regularly have 4000+ stocks
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Have to agree with this.. When the CMM crisis was in full swing I used galmap, filtered for refinery economy, population 1m+ or something like that, and had no trouble locating regular supplies of 150+ per visit (other 592 cargo was split between steel, aluminium, titanium - a ratio ensuring CMM delivery was keeping up with overall progress.) The stations I was buying from didn't appear on Inara afaik.
By the time the second CMM buff appeared, I'd already finished acquiring CMM for the coriolis I was building.
Inara is a great resource, in fact I used it to check the presence of ground stations in the refinery systems I was looking at, but for some tasks it's better to just go look.
As a big proponent of "stop using Inara"... I'd temper it with "use Inara for the right things".... which is mostly it's static information, rather than its dynamic info.
On a related note, it seems like there's no way to search for systems based on population size?
Agreed. I'd really like to go mining to produce some of the needed commodities and make use of the new refinery contact just so that's is not all hauling, but the fact that mining is already slow and the 2>1 ratio is off-putting.
Greetings
I have completed an outpost in space and a mining facility planet side (just finished) but now I have zero construction points.
This means I am unable to start any new projects.
Will the points I gain from the mining facility appear shortly or next Thursday or is this a glitch / related to the temporary freeze Frontier put on colonisation ?
Thanks
I have completed an outpost in space and a mining facility planet side (just finished) but now I have zero construction points.
This means I am unable to start any new projects.
Will the points I gain from the mining facility appear shortly or next Thursday or is this a glitch / related to the temporary freeze Frontier put on colonisation ?
Thanks
Please don't knock Inara. It is usually quite accurate but this is not a usual situation. My theory is that there is an influx of new/returning players, who are mauling the materials, and are not updating Inara. Either directly or with EDMC. Of course it is going to be off, and I would like to personally thank Artie for the huge effort in keeping the site afloat. There were many times his servers were just swamped.
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for Artie! o7If it weren't for "Inara" we wouldn't be able to play this game normally here. Who's stopping the developers from making a NORMAL TRADING INTERFACE?!?!?!?!?!? WHOOOOO?!?!?!?! I'm not talking about trading information, I'm talking about a NORMAL INTERFACE! They don't have money? Well, let them tell us, let's chip in! I'm ready! But they don't want to! That's why you shouldn't criticize third-party resources, these people make the game better.
I'm just using ColorNote app on my cellphone to compose checklist but it would be nice to have something similar in game- we do have power play assignments so why not add construction assignments tab? That way we could simply access and monitor progress of chosen construction site.
All the information is available using the in game tools it might not be as convenient but it's there if you look for it.
Really? I have 10K+ hours on my main alone and never used it.
They have one in game, its just that most folks cant be arsed to figure it out.
But each to their own
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I don't think people are knocking Inara, but it's important to understand what it is, vs what it isn't.Please don't knock Inara. It is usually quite accurate but this is not a usual situation. My theory is that there is an influx of new/returning players, who are mauling the materials, and are not updating Inara. Either directly or with EDMC. Of course it is going to be off, and I would like to personally thank Artie for the huge effort in keeping the site afloat. There were many times his servers were just swamped.
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What is isn't is an accurate, realtime source of global market data. You'll only get that from in- game. But people treat it like this.
Almost every complaint about market stocks, whether CMMs or Insulating Membranes or whatever, is always accompanied by a screenshot from Inara. That's misguided at best, ignorant at worst.
Inara is great for what it does, which for me is it's situational awareness and general summary of things. But for anything that needs accuracy and assessment of realtime conditions, i won't use it, because that's not what it's made for. I use it for planning pupses so i can then scope the actual situation out in-game and execute from there.
I don't think any of that is being critical of Inara, that is, to call out when people are using it to do something it's simply not good at doing.... which is to say, is it being critical of a hammer to say it's not a good saw?
It's the equivalent of checking out what a building and its surrounds looks like by using google maps.
On uploading data, i personally will never do that, for reasons entirely my own... and i don't think anyone should be beholden to that.
I personally only use Inara because EDDB disappeared.
I didn't say it doesn't exist! I wanted to say it's absolutely DISGUSTING! That's exactly why we have so many third-party tools!
I won't go in to bat for EDs market interfaces, but all the info you need is actually there, it's just unintuitively designed. (And no, paging through thousands of different markets and systems information is not necessary)
This is just an artifact of no game activity actually needing people to care about this info before.
Likewise!
Nope its far more accurate than any 3rd party tool, just learn how to use the games information.
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In your opinion, but it works and is accurate, unlike Inara
This. Again, nobody would fault Inara for what it does.
But it's not real time market information. It's historical records of player data when they visit the market.
This makes the use cases very different.
I wasn't calling you out personally just the critics in general. As for me, Inara has never let me down. I found everything just as it suggested. Maybe people just don't know how to use it. It is in no way perfect, nothing is but it is all we have since EDDB is gone.
As for EDDB, you said you used it before. Did you not contribute your info there also?
I had funny situation yesterday. My usual routine on take off from planetary landing site is to use boost asap when no structure is blocking path ahead of my ship. I have not even managed to press boost key after slightly moving cursor therefore breaking autodocking computer lift off procedure and got finned immediately for blocking landing pad (keep in mind what You usually get 1st is a warning). Now usual thing to get rid off it is to pay it on the same station on next visit but this time no contact for such action was available (since it is construction site). I had to look for larger station with the same faction in nearby systems to find one which graciously offered me privilege to pay it.
I bet someone from the construction crew got annoyed for me not delivering those materials fast enough and decided to play around with legal stuff to "encourage" me to work harder...
Edit: It is still possible to deliver materials with anonymous access but usually other land able stations in the system are under the same faction which means no access to things Your own system produces until fine is paid.
I bet someone from the construction crew got annoyed for me not delivering those materials fast enough and decided to play around with legal stuff to "encourage" me to work harder...
Edit: It is still possible to deliver materials with anonymous access but usually other land able stations in the system are under the same faction which means no access to things Your own system produces until fine is paid.
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If the Outpost is the first build in the system then all you will get is the Colonisation Ship (essentially, that is the construction site).