New Trading Tool - Cmdr's Log v1.1!
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any chance of any idiots guide how to use please
I personally do use the radio buttons but I'd probably get used to right clicking if I had to. I'm not too fussed about a black market tracker unlike certain, less scrupulous individuals!
Oi! I resemble that remark! 'onest guv, it fell off the back of a space-lorry!
I love this. Others are good and I'm not really against them but just feels a bit like cheating (imo). Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks mate, didnt think of that - Sigh, getting old
I just opened the commodity_data.txt and added them.
I also moved the drugs category to below Industrial mats as that is the order you scroll down.
All seems to work fine, this is how mine looks now ArchV1... please tell me if this is wrong, I am a bit of a "fiddler" when it comes to things like this and have in the past "broken" stuff.
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Just to help out I'll run through what I've found so far....
First run the app is blank, get yourself to a station try to run the game Borderless windowed so you can alt/tab to the desktop.
In the app in systems and stations part, right click and add station, fill in the details. This gives you a blank commodity page for that station.
What I now do is click on that station in the left panel which will give you a page in the middle with all the commodities shown.
Click at the bottom "Data entry mode" This new panel pop up should be in focus all the time. ie on top of the game.
Get the stations page open with commodities...
Start at the top... say maybe Hydrogen is top, on the app pop up right click Hydrogen and set the supply state high low or medium on either supply or demand.
Move down setting any/all commodities you are interested in (I just do them all)
Do this for every station you stop at, the other bit at bottom right is self explanatory once you start using it.
Now ..this is a good bit..
If you get a mission where it says "get me 7 Consumer Tech" (as an example) Use the drop down at the bottom to set Consumer tech in there and click need, it will show you (from the stations you have entered) where you can get said item.
Just a quick run through of how it works, I love this little app as all it is doing is replacing the pen and paper with a data entry system with storage and retrieval...
Just to help out I'll run through what I've found so far....
First run the app is blank, get yourself to a station try to run the game Borderless windowed so you can alt/tab to the desktop.
In the app in systems and stations part, right click and add station, fill in the details. This gives you a blank commodity page for that station.
What I now do is click on that station in the left panel which will give you a page in the middle with all the commodities shown.
Click at the bottom "Data entry mode" This new panel pop up should be in focus all the time. ie on top of the game.
Get the stations page open with commodities...
Start at the top... say maybe Hydrogen is top, on the app pop up right click Hydrogen and set the supply state high low or medium on either supply or demand.
Move down setting any/all commodities you are interested in (I just do them all)
Do this for every station you stop at, the other bit at bottom right is self explanatory once you start using it.
Now ..this is a good bit..
If you get a mission where it says "get me 7 Consumer Tech" (as an example) Use the drop down at the bottom to set Consumer tech in there and click need, it will show you (from the stations you have entered) where you can get said item.
Just a quick run through of how it works, I love this little app as all it is doing is replacing the pen and paper with a data entry system with storage and retrieval...
Some more tips...
1. When setting the commodities you can multi select several at once then set them with the right click - hold down CTRL and left click each commodity, then right click.
2. Not set or none - When you first create a station, they are all set to "not set" I generally leave them as this so any commodity not in the list are "not set", now sometimes I see a commodity in the list, but it doesn't have a demand or supply value, so I set these to NONE - meaning no demand or supply.
3. Every time I dock now - even though I've got all the data, I open up the data entry mode and overlay it on the commodities I tick the two "HIDE" check boxes and then quickly check the demands / supplies with the settings in Elite and update them, once I've done that I then select ALL of the visible commodities and click the "MARK CURRENT" button - this button updates the AGE of each of the selected commodities.
Hope this helps.
Great App !!!
I entered a new system/station this evening & was shocked to see that it was already populated with the Supply & demand filled in ? Some where correct but most was wrong
Anyone else had this happen to them ??
I entered a new system/station this evening & was shocked to see that it was already populated with the Supply & demand filled in ? Some where correct but most was wrong
Anyone else had this happen to them ??
THX to the OP
Just a BIG THANKS for this tool. Nice work!
Just a BIG THANKS for this tool. Nice work!
What file format are you using for the data files?
The tool looks really useful, just about to give it a proper try-out - love the philosophy behind it.
Just wondering what the file format is you are using for the data files?
I started using EliteOCR recently to speed-up collecting market data and was going to experiment with writing a script to take data from the EliteOCR export file and inject the relevant parts of it into the system_data.txt file... however, I'm struggling to figure out the file format.
Are you using a known file format or something you devised yourself?
Cheers.
The tool looks really useful, just about to give it a proper try-out - love the philosophy behind it.
Just wondering what the file format is you are using for the data files?
I started using EliteOCR recently to speed-up collecting market data and was going to experiment with writing a script to take data from the EliteOCR export file and inject the relevant parts of it into the system_data.txt file... however, I'm struggling to figure out the file format.
Are you using a known file format or something you devised yourself?
Cheers.
The format for the save data and the commodities is a custom format. I've written many file parsers in my life, so it was easy to wipe up something quick. It should be pretty straightforward to decipher the files format. Basically there's a Section with a name, and in the section is a list of key/value pairs for that section, and then a list of subsections. Repeat recursively and that's the file format Note, if you are really get detailed with those data files, note that comments work as well just start the line with //
Note, if you are really get detailed with those data files, note that comments work as well just start the line with //Thanks for the info ArchV1, I thought it might be.
Having used it for a bit tonight, I think I would only use this would-be script as a one-off import (i.e. for the info I've gathered manually thus far) - it's seems a bit quicker to enter the demand info into this than it is to review and correct the OCR output, although the extra info is nice.
If I come up with anything, I'll post a reply here.
Cheers.
Having used it for a bit tonight, I think I would only use this would-be script as a one-off import (i.e. for the info I've gathered manually thus far) - it's seems a bit quicker to enter the demand info into this than it is to review and correct the OCR output, although the extra info is nice.
If I come up with anything, I'll post a reply here.
Cheers.
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Thanks ArchV1
Thanks for the effort ---- I worked up an excel sheet to do my tracking of supply and demand, but it was turning out to be cumbersome trying to go thru so many sheets of paper trying to find the trading matchups. I can't wait to try this out tomorrow. I'm thinking about trying to set up a side 19 in monitor to run Captains Log while the game is on my main monitor
Thanks for the effort ---- I worked up an excel sheet to do my tracking of supply and demand, but it was turning out to be cumbersome trying to go thru so many sheets of paper trying to find the trading matchups. I can't wait to try this out tomorrow. I'm thinking about trying to set up a side 19 in monitor to run Captains Log while the game is on my main monitor
I'm running it in borderless on three monitors and would find a 4th one, or a laptop, or an android version invaluable.
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