Abandoned [RELEASE] Trade Computer Extension

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Today, i want to give you all a preview of the reworked Commodity panel comming next with TCE V1.45:

Here are the screenshots:
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As you can see, the panel has a better general view and adept better to the Commodity screen of ED.
Now it is possible to change the prices of all station quickly, because you can select the station at the top, to view and edit.
In addtion, we have now two seperate areas to select:

The first and default is the View Prices area.
Here you can view all goods and their prices. Now you can go through the list with a scrollbar.
Also you can select Compact View at the bottom, to shrink the list to display only commodities, that are tradeable at the station.
It is also possible to jump to a specific category of commodities, to show only commodities belonging to it.
There are now small colored arrows after a scan to show you, what prices and stocks moves up or down (green = better, red = worse).
I have rewritten the manual input of prices also, if you dont use EliteOCR. Its better than before.

The second area is Scan Prices:
When clicked the first time, after reaching a station, you can choose to make an Update Scan or a Clean Scan.
Now the area shows a list of all commodities from the scan of data, to briefly show you, if the scan is correctly made.
A green checkmark at the back of each commodities tells you, if the commodity is in common price ranges.
A red cross shows you, if something was wrong with the scan data of the commodity.
You can manually edit the wrong value, or make a new scan.
A colored indicater shows you the process of the OCR scan.

Okay, that is it. The new version is currently in closed beta test and i think, i will release it next weekend.
 
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I'm currently trying to run TCE, but it's not recognizing that my game is running. Any ideas?

DISREGARD, I pulled up the tutorial folder instead of the game folder somehow during intial setup of TCE. Sorry!
 
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I'm currently trying to run TCE, but it's not recognizing that my game is running. Any ideas?

If you got the message "Waiting for Elite Dangerous", then TCE didnt find any position data. Please restart ED, till you are in game, then start TCE.
Please check also the appconfig.xml file, if the VeboseLogging="1" entry under network is there.

DISREGARD, I pulled up the tutorial folder instead of the game folder somehow during intial setup of TCE. Sorry!

No problem, you are not alone :)
 
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Hmm, every thing seams to work "sorta", but for some reason the OCR wont work for me, its not populating the Sell / Buy / Stock, have tried every thing.
If i go and enable debug thingy, it starts the orc in the command prompt, but nothing happens, so i know the path also works for it.
It is calibrated and every thing, have tried manually and it worked great, and im using latest which is 0.7, and the "OCR_BMP" also contains the latest SC "Screenshot.bmp".
Im using "Full-Version 1.44 installer: http://bit.ly/1K0Oafl"
 
Hmm, every thing seams to work "sorta", but for some reason the OCR wont work for me, its not populating the Sell / Buy / Stock, have tried every thing.
If i go and enable debug thingy, it starts the orc in the command prompt, but nothing happens, so i know the path also works for it.
It is calibrated and every thing, have tried manually and it worked great, and im using latest which is 0.7, and the "OCR_BMP" also contains the latest SC "Screenshot.bmp".
Im using "Full-Version 1.44 installer: http://bit.ly/1K0Oafl"

Please check the export.csv file at the OCR_Export folder, if there are any goods listed.
 
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Hello Eventure,

So far I am really enjoying the program. It's a little buggy for me, but until now it's been a minor annoyance. As I said, until now.

I ran across a couple new commodity items (Antiquities, and AI Relics). I used the database updater to add the new items, and all of a sudden I have major price errors. I did notice that there is a back up folder, does this perhaps store previous data such as this?

As much as I would love a Bauxite sell price of 60000 cr, I know that to be an error. Additionally, it's showing the ware available to buy from a station that does not export it.
 
Hello Eventure,

So far I am really enjoying the program. It's a little buggy for me, but until now it's been a minor annoyance. As I said, until now.

I ran across a couple new commodity items (Antiquities, and AI Relics). I used the database updater to add the new items, and all of a sudden I have major price errors. I did notice that there is a back up folder, does this perhaps store previous data such as this?

As much as I would love a Bauxite sell price of 60000 cr, I know that to be an error. Additionally, it's showing the ware available to buy from a station that does not export it.


Hello,

the backup folder holds a copy of your databases. TCE makes a backup every day, at the first start.

Your entered commodities are salvage goods and they are no trade goods, because you cant buy them.
So TCE didnt record these items, EliteOCR cant read them too. And there could be the problem.
Please go back to the point before adding these goods to TCE and replace your database with the backup.

With the new Commodity panel comming next update, you can easily see, if a scan of commodities delivers wrong values.
 
Please check the export.csv file at the OCR_Export folder, if there are any goods listed.
Hmm i cant find the export.csv file anywhere, i think it should be in this folder right "X:\Games\Elite Dangerous\TCE\EliteOCR\OCR_Export"

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Found out it tried to make the file in "X:\Games\Elite Dangerous\TCE\OCR_Export" so i just created the "OCR_Export" there now and i got the file, and now it works great :D so no panic and thx again for the great Tool :)

Just 1 question, anyone got a database they could share with some stations, cause its kinda empty as it comes :D
 
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I believe that TCE is designed to be used without sharing databases. If people start sharing databases it will be classed as crowd sourcing and then would be banned by Frontier like other crowd sourcing tools have been.

Much better to do the work and find your own stations.
 
I believe that TCE is designed to be used without sharing databases. If people start sharing databases it will be classed as crowd sourcing and then would be banned by Frontier like other crowd sourcing tools have been.

Much better to do the work and find your own stations.

That is not quite right, of course you can share your data with other TCE users, TCE has a FTP support for that and not one crowdsource data tool was ever banned by Frontier, as far as i know.

Just 1 question, anyone got a database they could share with some stations, cause its kinda empty as it comes
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If you want the old starter database, filled with 150 trade stations, PM me.
But the main thing is your current position in ED. If you are at a location far away from the stations of the database, its useless, if you dont plan to move to the stations, that got recorded from another user.
I suggest to create your own dataset around your current location, where you are playing. TCE encourages to unreveal your sourrounding stations and store the data of them.
Try it and you will see, that it is better to fill up your own database with station at your current location.
 
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Full Version (V1.45) and Update released:



Changelog:
- Reworked Commodity panel (see preview here)
- Added into Star System Database panel your last known position with distance to check your entered distances for reference stars, if they are correct.
- Fixed preview of bidirectional routes showing wrong destination import/export.
- Fixed some issues with the Trade Scout panel.
- Fixed some issues with the Trade Route Planner panel.

Note:
Use the update, if you have TCE V1.44 already installed. The Transfer Database Manager is only needed for TCE V1.43 databases and earlier.
 
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can you add support for the EDMarketConnector. NO MORE PICTURES!!

Sorry, but all mobile API tools are disputed in usage, and FD didnt make any clear comment on it to use them without risking a shutdown or ban.
So we have to wait for a clear statement.
 
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