The right column is the profit to be made, not the average price, i.e. the market display assumes the average price to be 0 or close to it. And yes, it's been this way for a long time. I don't remember if it was working right before the FC prices in station markets broke (there, the FC market price is usually shown as 0 or 2cr)
mmm, i assumed it was something like that, i assume you mean though, the right column is SUPPOSED to be displaying potential-profit, at (seeing as though it's supposed to be calculating a DIFFERENCE between more than one market, even-if an average rather than a specific market like it normally does)
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I guess my MAIN point, is like... how the hell could ANYthing that's supposed to be of prices EXTERNALLY to your carrier, MATCH, what you-yourself, have only just created,.. so what's the point of such a malfunctioning column?
also, if it's to've shown a pure 1 for 1 FROM zero, as you're suggesting, then take another look at mine, and the manual quick calcs i've drawn in - if it was copying my prices and not comparing them with anything ELSE,.. then they should all be zero, like in BL1P's images.
But they're not!
so-what,.. like i said with my jelly-bean-jar metaphor ... i'm supposed to've guessed a almost-perfect number.... 25? 40 times, near a local or galatic average?
no f***ing way. utterly laughable gooleplex sort of number chance of that.
MUST be modifying the number i'm putting in, for MY price, and then creating false-data, for the 2nd column,
BEFORE doing the subtraction.
w.t.f. is THAT what Frontier wants from the programmer who programmed it?
difficult to imagine any situation when they would. why would they.
so i'm assuming it's not,..
another possibility that came to mind, is that it is comparing the galatic average, to perhaps a NEARBY average, assuming cmdrs will research nearby prices MANUALLY, rather than using 3rd party software (goodluck trying to make us!
) ... and THEN,
getting a common, small difference,
and then adding that diffference, + or - ... to whatever price YOU set.
it would be absurd, to assume that everyone would manually set prices to nearby averages all the time,
these are KIDS playing with PLAY MONEY ... not realworld stock & capital handlers, and even those, push slight and sometimes 'gambling' margins,.. or else things like stock exchanges would be pointless,.. so.... ugh?.. my brain hurts trying to imagine what they could've been thinking.
Surely if you set something hugely expensive, titan mats ... to 1cr ... something that is supposed to be finding AVERAGES,.. either local OR galatic,.. should not find "1" ... or oooOOOooo,.. perhaps 3 .... and then be showing me utter RUBBISH information, that i could make a profit of *
drumroll * = 2cr !
by 'finding a local that varies a little' ? is that what each is supposed to be?
that's what i mean... it doesn't look like it's using ANY kind of average,
and instead, is using some kind of CORRECTION, or VARIATION,
and just adding that to whatever number YOU put in!
bizzare.
that's not even what some risk-minimalisation corporate brown-nosing guru would program,
i.e. EVEN IF that was what you wanted from your programmer ( local (conservative-no-risk) averages NEAR the galatic average) ) ...
... then it's fair to say, Frontier, that THAT'S STILL not what you're getting, from whoever left it this way!!
They left it literally not working! no matter what hype they spun on how advanced or,.. pre-calculatory,.. or,.. customised,.. or,.. 'multiple-steps-in-one' or something.
whatever, their spiel - it's STILL not doing, whatever they wanted it to / what you asked for it to,
and presumably also, TOLD you, it was going-to.
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If it was a by-product of someone leaving the company, or perhaps even, the late err... whathis name,.. one of the founders,.. then ugh... despite the MOMENTARY sensitivity of the community, and ofc the head team, Braben himself, etc,..
... just let someone else handle it, please!
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), and would probably do it for FREE just to not have it never work!...
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