Discussion EDDiscovery vs Captain's Log 2 Beta

[Archon Valec]

Has anyone more experienced in exploration used both the beta for captains log 2 and also EDDiscovery recently that can give me a in-depth run down on the differences? pros vs cons? etc. Maybe you guys use one app for certain types of exploration and the other for something different? Maybe you use both? (and why?) Would like some second opinions and decide which one to go with long term.


Thanks in advance! Always love the discussion with this community [cool]

 

[Finwen]

Try both and se which one suits your style best.

I am slightly bias toward EDDiscovery as i am the one started making that. But i also uses Captains log for fun sometimes.

Captain log has a nice clean UI and EDDiscovery is more like a swiss army knife with many different tools to use.

One pro with EDDiscovery that i like as that its more integrasted with EDDN/EDDB/EDSM.

Best wayt for you is to install both and se wivh you like most. Or use both.

 

[Genar-Hofoen]

Captain's Log author here - why not both?

As Finwen rightly says - EDD is a Swiss Army Knife and it does an awful lot of very cool stuff, and I just try to keep CL clean and simple. Use whichever you feel is best for you.

Also do note CL2 is beta-quality, which means it's got lots of bugs (which I'm trying to squish and am squishing) and incomplete features. There's only me working on it as well.

So yeah - entirely up to your good self

 

[Archon Valec]

Thanks for the input!

 

[Archon Valec]

EDDiscovery now has TTS and reads back journal entries!

 

[Para Handy]

I really like Captain's Log and would use it more but for one thing - I have multiple commanders. Captain's Log seems to merge all their logs together with no option as far as I can see to store / display them individually. So I use EDDiscovery which does a great job of that. I would use Commander's Log too if I could find a way to not amalgamate my different commander's travels.

 

[Genar-Hofoen]

I really like Captain's Log and would use it more but for one thing - I have multiple commanders. Captain's Log seems to merge all their logs together with no option as far as I can see to store / display them individually. So I use EDDiscovery which does a great job of that. I would use Commander's Log too if I could find a way to not amalgamate my different commander's travels.

I'm going to be adding multi-CMDR support some time in the near future. If you examine the trip database format (by loading one into a sqlite DB editor), you'll notice that right from the start I have a table for the CMDR in each trip DB - it's been planned since I started work turning CL1 into CL2

I just haven't had the time/opportunity to add it yet

Regards

 

[Para Handy]

I'm going to be adding multi-CMDR support some time in the near future. If you examine the trip database format (by loading one into a sqlite DB editor), you'll notice that right from the start I have a table for the CMDR in each trip DB - it's been planned since I started work turning CL1 into CL2

I just haven't had the time/opportunity to add it yet

Regards

Well thanks for that great news - I look forward to you eventually incorporating it. [up]

 

[[VR] Mad Mike]

Hi
does captains log work well in VR?

thanks

I am looking for a basic captains log app however i play 100% in VR.

 

[daver4470]

I actually use both simultaneously, because (a) they're both great, and (b) each has unique features that I like. Pre-journal, each had a fairly unique niche, such that using both wasn't very duplicative at all: EDD was your mapper, and CL1 was your planet logger. Now, post-journal, they do overlap quite a bit, but (thankfully) they don't interfere with each other at all (still), so using them both isn't a problem.

EDD- - 3d mapping!!!! Three Dee Mapping!!!!! THREE DIMENSIONAL MAPPING!!!!!!!! It's slow and taxing on your system sometimes, and a bit awkward to use -- but I find it nothing short of miraculous. Also, EDD does just about anything you could ask for (with one exception....) Also, version 8 stands to be even MORE useful by auto-recording market info as you dock, and making it available for search/comparison in the app.
CL2: - It's a tiny little thing... but the odometer is just cool as heck, as is the ability to set a target system and have an updated distance-to-target number in the overlay. And I just like CL2's overlay a bit better than EDD's (although EDD's is customizable). It does most of what you could ask for (with one exception....)

The one exception is the running total of your estimated value of discoveries, which Captain's Log used to do in version 1, and which EDD theoretically can do to an extent, as it tracks individual body estimated values as you scan. It's not a mission-critical feature for either piece of software... but it was definitely useful, if only to determine how much you stand to lose when/if you screw up that neutron star boost....

Bottom line is you can't go wrong with either. EDD has more of a learning curve to it, but can do more. CL2 is clean and simple and blitheringly easy to use, but lacks some of the cool bells & whistles of EDD. And there's no reason you can't use both, if you've got the disk space for the data files.