Anyone else ditching trade tools to look for trade routes on the fringe of civilized space?
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I use Cmdr's Log for My trading.
It doesnt use any data you collected yourself. I did however wrote a small extension for it to grab the data real quick using elite ocr.
Although this works standalone I found the UI a bit tedious to extract market data. So you just press a hotkey and the data is imported.
Will be releasing it soon, but you can try
It doesnt use any data you collected yourself. I did however wrote a small extension for it to grab the data real quick using elite ocr.
Although this works standalone I found the UI a bit tedious to extract market data. So you just press a hotkey and the data is imported.
Will be releasing it soon, but you can try
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Slopey
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I actually love using the Galaxy Map filters and then double-checking planetary distances and station types/details in the System Map to identify new trade routes. The problem is I very much dislike then being forced to resort to 14th century methods of manual tabulation and note-taking.
So I just EliteOCR everything in my path and upload to my favorite 3rd party tool to do the remembering and number-crunching for me. As a result, I'm a heavy contributor to the crowdsourced data AND I'm essentially giving away all the good great routes I find to everyone else for free!
Only.... It doesn't really work out that way. Despite me laying it all out crystal clear in a detailed guide (*cough*Guides forum*cough*), and despite me happily uploading the data for every system I explore to find my pet trade routes, nobody has yet come along and stolen my pet 16,000 cr/ton/hour (or better) trade route of the week from me. Why? Because most people go after the shiny big numbers that are easy to see and don't look for the shiny big numbers that are harder to see. Even with all the ways you can crunch and filter those numbers with the 3rd party tools.
The best routes are in _very_ non-obvious places with very not-thrilling per-unit numbers involved. And even stating exactly that fact over and over with examples both in my guide and in various forum posts, most people just don't seem to *see* it.
As a result, I trade in and around the core and have been milking the same run uncontested since the supply rate "fix" just before 1.1 landed. Despite the data to find that run being out there in plain sight.
So I just EliteOCR everything in my path and upload to my favorite 3rd party tool to do the remembering and number-crunching for me. As a result, I'm a heavy contributor to the crowdsourced data AND I'm essentially giving away all the good great routes I find to everyone else for free!
Only.... It doesn't really work out that way. Despite me laying it all out crystal clear in a detailed guide (*cough*Guides forum*cough*), and despite me happily uploading the data for every system I explore to find my pet trade routes, nobody has yet come along and stolen my pet 16,000 cr/ton/hour (or better) trade route of the week from me. Why? Because most people go after the shiny big numbers that are easy to see and don't look for the shiny big numbers that are harder to see. Even with all the ways you can crunch and filter those numbers with the 3rd party tools.
The best routes are in _very_ non-obvious places with very not-thrilling per-unit numbers involved. And even stating exactly that fact over and over with examples both in my guide and in various forum posts, most people just don't seem to *see* it.
As a result, I trade in and around the core and have been milking the same run uncontested since the supply rate "fix" just before 1.1 landed. Despite the data to find that run being out there in plain sight.
Here's one if you happen to have an android device. I'll be updating it with a trade finder soon, but it's all local data you enter yourself and nothing shared with/by others on the internet.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=106700
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If you have Excel, this is well worth a look (no its not a boring spreadsheet): https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=103401
No crowdsourced data.. just what you enter / ocr in yourself by visiting the stations... The way I like it.
Before it, I tried RegulatedNoise (without EDDN data) and it works nicely too, but I like the overlays provided by the excel one:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=86908&highlight=regulated+noise
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ollobrains
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Rares to pand solar system, exploration data or just local tradng of metals from pand to hr 6680 is highly profitable, and the solar systems are being upgraded by a core group of playes leading to the market constantly upgrading, so now our profits are even better and firing economic booms twice a week has even higher amounts and theres little traffic up here anyway
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I use CMDR logger. Just records my data.
I found a nice home base in the fringe of the Empire with a good supply of high demand and supply & outfitting. Tragic reports alway show I'm the only play pulling into the port in the last 24 hours. I've mapped most of the local station, so I can grind out decent profits in my T6 and then explore in my cobra till I can afford a fully upgraded ASP.