Anyone else having trouble with Slopeys tool?
- Thread starter keem85
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I've been using it quite a bit, and apart from one naff sell price (price given was 6788 instead of the actual 788, so I thought I was making a 90k profit when really I made a 500 CR loss) it's been pretty accurate and good for me.
My only gripe is I kept finding myself in systems with no data on the tool (Fomalhaut for example. It has 3-5 big starports but it isn't on the tool).
My only gripe is I kept finding myself in systems with no data on the tool (Fomalhaut for example. It has 3-5 big starports but it isn't on the tool).
Yes I've encountered that too.. But now for instance, I was promised 224.328CR for one run.. The first delivery was about right, but the return commodity wasn't there (I had to find the Algae on another station in the same system).. The return commodity Algae was going to give me a return profit of 181.896CR (sounds insane I know,), and it was too good to be true, because instead of making 181.896CR on the Algae, I lost 1560CR.. Slopey's tool is WAY off..
Yes but it's strange, as the tool is supposed to read from the logs..
No it doesn't, the data is entered manually by players. If you find yourself in a system with no data, enter some!
Do you guys realise that the data is only available to you because it is crowd sourced - that means other players have been entering the data. If you find the tool useful then at least give something back and enter data into the tool for the system you are in. You don't have to do it for every commodity, although that would be nice but long winded, but at least enter details for the stuff the station has in stock. And when you sell something elsewhere update the price for that station
Well, the problem is that Slopey's tool is usally way off with it's pricing and commodity. I'll admit that it has helped me sending me in the right direction, but that's about it.
This is where common sense comes into practice 
Look at the commodity you intially trade, if the pricing and proft seem right it's legit, but if the return profit for something along the line of lets say indite, is 200k, it is blatantly false
If you are in a lakon 6, the max average you are going to earn is 180k-200k on a return run (max cargo hold). Anything more, stop the search and carry on from the last realistic one
Look at the commodity you intially trade, if the pricing and proft seem right it's legit, but if the return profit for something along the line of lets say indite, is 200k, it is blatantly false
If you are in a lakon 6, the max average you are going to earn is 180k-200k on a return run (max cargo hold). Anything more, stop the search and carry on from the last realistic one
it does read your location from logs guys
except now its broken ....and i have no logs lol
except now its broken ....and i have no logs lol
Having the exact same issue and mostly with return commodities as mentioned. Never had this issue in beta nor gamma myself, it pretty much started upon the games official release.
The issue is with people inputting incorrect prices rather than the tool being at fault. Look at the buy price of an item and if the sell price is vastly different (like for example earlier the tool told me I could make 80k profit selling Indite a jump away at 5k a ton when its about 1k a ton to pick up) then its probably false information.