Google sheets trading template

[acegadgets]

I've just starting playing the Beta and would have thought that there was some kind of easy way of tracking what commodities are available at which locations and how much they buy and sell for. I did play Elite in the 80's and thought that there was some kind of way in game of storing the info. However I could have been getting mixed up with Eve, which I dabbled in a few years ago.
Anyway If there is such a system that i've overlooked, please let me know.
I'm a bit old and not too clever when it comes to technical stuff, but i'm sure I can manage to manually update a google sheets doc so that I can look up info commodities info on my Android tablet.
rather than create a spreadsheet from scratch, has anyone made a template on Google that they would share with others?
I would be happy to share any data that I input with other once I get started on my travels around the universe.

 

[Sidrat]

I too wanted to start the design process and populate a few pieces of information, but I haven't for two reasons.

Firstly it's still pre-release so the contents may change - not necessarily that radically, but still change none the less.

Second we don't know (unless I've missed it) how/who the supply/demand levels are influenced by. It's easy to create but very very annoying to keep updated, especially if the price fluctuates up and down every fifteen minutes and the stock/demand levels changes on the same time frame.

At least with Eve online there were raw materials that was used by players to manufacture mods/ships etc so there was always demand in many systems. In Elite Dangerous, there doesn't seem to be an industrial manufacturing base for the player to get in to or develop - it's entirely trade only, so it's more limited in scope.

I will of course be keeping an eye on the changes we receive and hopefully there will be an audience for a publicly updated online listing of prices by station.

 

[acegadgets]

Although the prices will be all over the place , I think that a basic spreadsheet might be a better option for me than scraps of paper or a white board and it gives me as a noob a rough idea of what is available here and there. So I made a basic one that I'll be filling in and updating from time to time. Obviously When the game is released things will change a lot , they may introduce some easy way of tracking prices?
So I wont be putting in too much effort at this stage.

 

[Ouaisne]

There are several projects on the go that have a lot of promise and I will add some links below so you can look for yourself but I agree something is needed it just depends on how far each individual wishes to take this.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=53037
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=34986
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=57986
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=23161

edit: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=47145
Edit 2: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=51113

 

[acegadgets]

There are several projects on the go that have a lot of promise and I will add some links below so you can look for yourself but I agree something is needed it just depends on how far each individual wishes to take this.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=53037
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=34986
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=57986
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=23161

edit: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=47145
Edit 2: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=51113

Theres a lot of people putting in a lot of work on these projects. Thanks for the links, its given me a few ideas .