In-Development TradeDangerous: power-user trade optimizer

DRY411S · Feb 3, 2016

Otis B. said:
OK, use EDSM's data dump and, given that Sol is at 0,0,0, it should be fairly easy to filter out all systems further than 500 Ly from Sol.

OK, do we know that there are no stations more than 500ly from Sol?

Otis B. · Feb 3, 2016

DRY411S said:
OK, do we know that there are no stations more than 500ly from Sol?

The furthest that anyone has found is Sothis, which is just under 500 Ly.
https://eddb.io/system

Tromador · Feb 4, 2016

Something very strange happening with platinum.

I was looking for some for a mission, so

Code:

D:\Gadgets\TradeDangerous>trade.py buy --near 78ursae --pad L --ly 40 platinum
D:\Gadgets\TradeDangerous\trade.py: Error: No available items found

Strange, thought I. A similar search for fruit & veggies just worked no problem. Ok then.. try this..

Code:

D:\Gadgets\TradeDangerous>trade.py buy --near 78ursae --pad L --ly 100 platinum
D:\Gadgets\TradeDangerous\trade.py: Error: No available items found

"Curioser & curioser." Said Alice.

How about

Code:

D:\Gadgets\TradeDangerous>trade.py buy --near 78ursae --pad L --ly 500 platinum
Station                        Cost      Units DistLy Age/days      StnLs B/mkt Pad Plt
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
LTT 2684/Lindsey Orbital     17,754          0 181.22     8.71        282   Yes Lrg  No

Wait, only one station in a 500LY radius selling platinum. This cannot be right!

Sanity check

Code:

D:\Gadgets\TradeDangerous>trade.py buy --near sol --pad L platinum
D:\Gadgets\TradeDangerous\trade.py: Error: No available items found

Now I definitely don't believe it. My TradeDangerous.Prices has 14096 occurrences of the word platinum. Any ideas what is going on?

Edit:

I have scanned my .prices and it's actually real. Apparently there is no plat for sale in the galaxy. So the software is reporting correctly from the data it has.
Anybody know why there is no platinum anywhere?

DRY411S · Feb 4, 2016

You can only acquire Platinum by mining it.

Tromador · Feb 4, 2016

DRY411S said:
You can only acquire Platinum by mining it.

Hmm. Oki. I'm sure one used to be able to purchase it, but I have taken a sabbatical from the game - lots of things have changed. Thanks.

arxerisdam · Feb 12, 2016

Hi everyone, i hope everyone is ok today, Question what is the lastest TradeDangerous version for players who have horizons?

maddavo · Feb 15, 2016

arxerisdam said:
Hi everyone, i hope everyone is ok today, Question what is the lastest TradeDangerous version for players who have horizons?

Hi @arxerisdam, the best version to use at the moment for horizons is from bgol's bitbucket - horizons branch (not master branch).

arxerisdam · Feb 16, 2016

Thanks Maddavo!

DRY411S · Feb 17, 2016

*Gulp*

Code:

>nslookup www.davek.com.auServer:  router.asus.com
Address:  192.168.1.1


DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
*** router.asus.com can't find www.davek.com.au: Server failed

Gimi · Feb 17, 2016

Yup, same problem here. His site is currently not available. He has had DNS issues before, quite recently.

hitchhiker54 · Feb 17, 2016

Since Davo is in Australia, he's probably getting setup at the office about now. I'm sure it will be sorted as soon as he has time

maddavo · Feb 18, 2016

Hi all, I've just changed DNS servers. So hopefully that should fix things as it propagates. If you can't wait then you could set a DNS server directly in your list to 52.62.42.74 .
Cheers,
Maddavo

nepomuk · Feb 24, 2016

Hi at all,
I can't use the EDAPI (plugin and stand alone). Since the last API-problem from FD I can't login.
User and password are OK. Does anyone have any idea why this might be ?
I use orphu's EDAPI-tool (https://bitbucket.org/orphu/edapi/overview) version 361.

Greetings from nepomuk

Squidcannon · Feb 25, 2016

Has compression for .prices files been considered? This would speed up updating and reduce traffic.

Quick test: zip with deflate, normal compression:
Name raw compressed
TradeDangerous.prices 271 MB 21 MB
TradeDangerous-2d.prices 27 MB 2 MB

So about 90% size reduction. Not surprising, as the files contain a ridiculous amount of duplicate data (item and category names).

Squidcannon · Feb 28, 2016

Please disregard my previous post, my mistake.
Completely missed that the site uses gzip compression. Oops.

OhGman · Mar 18, 2016

This may have been answered previously but I could not find anything with a search...

Load from ANDERE/Kummer City (1.18Kls, BMk:N, Pad:L, Shp:Y, Out:Y, Ref:Y):
6 x Titanium 803cr vs 1,306cr, 20 days vs 53 days
2 x Polymers 76cr vs 280cr, 20 days vs 53 days
What does the 'vs' indicate in the example above??

Thanks

DRY411S · Mar 18, 2016

It's Buy price vs Sell Price and Age of Buy prices vs Age of Sell prices

So, 20 days ago the price of Titanium was 803Cr and you are selling it at ? for 1,306Cr which was the price 53 days ago.

OhGman · Mar 21, 2016

THX DRY411S

NE1 · Mar 27, 2016

anyone else getting alot of Unrecognized items?

Unrecognized item name: "NERVE AGENTS"
Unrecognized item name: "SURFACE STABILISERS"
Unrecognized item name: "SYNTHETIC REAGENTS"
Unrecognized item name: "EVACUATION SHELTER"
Unrecognized item name: "META-ALLOYS"
Unrecognized item name: "BUILDING FABRICATORS"
Unrecognized item name: "GEOLOGICAL EQUIPMENT"
Unrecognized item name: "SKIMMER COMPONENTS"
Unrecognized item name: "THERMAL COOLING UNITS"
Unrecognized item name: "THORIUM"
Unrecognized item name: "CRYOLITE"
Unrecognized item name: "MUON IMAGER"
Unrecognized item name: "STRUCTURAL REGULATORS"
Unrecognized item name: "LANDMINES"
Unrecognized item name: "SURFACE STABILISERS"
Unrecognized item name: "BOOTLEG LIQUOR"
Unrecognized item name: "CRYOLITE"
Unrecognized item name: "GOSLARITE"
Unrecognized item name: "PYROPHYLLITE"
Unrecognized item name: "SURFACE STABILISERS"
Unrecognized item name: "CRYOLITE"
Unrecognized item name: "GOSLARITE"
Unrecognized item name: "PYROPHYLLITE"
Unrecognized item name: "CERAMIC COMPOSITES"
Unrecognized item name: "META-ALLOYS"
Unrecognized item name: "BUILDING FABRICATORS"
Unrecognized item name: "GEOLOGICAL EQUIPMENT"
Unrecognized item name: "SKIMMER COMPONENTS"
Unrecognized item name: "THERMAL COOLING UNITS"
Unrecognized item name: "CERAMIC COMPOSITES"
Unrecognized item name: "META-ALLOYS"
Unrecognized item name: "BUILDING FABRICATORS"
Unrecognized item name: "GEOLOGICAL EQUIPMENT"
Unrecognized item name: "SKIMMER COMPONENTS"
Unrecognized item name: "THERMAL COOLING UNITS"
Unrecognized item name: "CERAMIC COMPOSITES"
Unrecognized item name: "META-ALLOYS"
Unrecognized item name: "BUILDING FABRICATORS"
Unrecognized item name: "GEOLOGICAL EQUIPMENT"
Unrecognized item name: "SKIMMER COMPONENTS"
Unrecognized item name: "THERMAL COOLING UNITS"
Unrecognized item name: "CERAMIC COMPOSITES"
Unrecognized item name: "META-ALLOYS"
Unrecognized item name: "BOOTLEG LIQUOR"
Unrecognized item name: "BUILDING FABRICATORS"
Unrecognized item name: "GEOLOGICAL EQUIPMENT"
Unrecognized item name: "SKIMMER COMPONENTS"
Unrecognized item name: "THERMAL COOLING UNITS"
Unrecognized item name: "SURFACE STABILISERS"
Unrecognized item name: "BOOTLEG LIQUOR"
Unrecognized item name: "CRYOLITE"
Unrecognized item name: "GOSLARITE"
Unrecognized item name: "PYROPHYLLITE"
Unrecognized item name: "SURFACE STABILISERS"
Unrecognized item name: "BOOTLEG LIQUOR"
Unrecognized item name: "CRYOLITE"
Unrecognized item name: "GOSLARITE"
Unrecognized item name: "PYROPHYLLITE"
Unrecognized item name: "SURFACE STABILISERS"
Unrecognized item name: "CRYOLITE"
Unrecognized item name: "GOSLARITE"
Unrecognized item name: "PYROPHYLLITE"

NE1 · Mar 27, 2016

Also has --no-planet option been removed from the horizons branch?

ERROR: unrecognized arguments: --no-planet