For anyone who is interested, here is Mix Elite Rare Route Planner (early Alpha version). It helps plan routes to buy 107 rare commodities telling you a reasonably optimal route to fly round the selected systems, what to buy and where to sell it. It was inspired by Sniper435's tool and is using his data, modified slightly for my own purposes. Thanks Sniper435.
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This is currently a very bare bones DOS executable with basic functionality. Answer the questions (what permits you have, max Ls you are prepared to fly to stations, preferred minimum distance before selling) sit back and wait for the route to be optimised, type in a filename for the text instructions to be saved to. No additional libraries or downloads are required to run this.
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I email the output to myself to get it onto my phone. From there I copy it into my Notes app which I already use for storing information about Elite discoveries etc.
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I plan to add a bit more data and functionality to improve filtering and the output. Initially, I will add info about which stations are outposts so that Large Landing Pad requiring Commanders can filter those out. Then I plan to add information about which rare items are classed as illegal and which stations don't care or have Black Markets so that you aren't told to sell those commodities at stations that you can't sell them at.
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I may then leave the tool at that stage. It'll be functional but not very pretty. I prefer playing Elite to writing software, but I might then convert the app into a nice GUI based Windows app - complete with auto downloading of update data and pretty visualisations of the route. I'd also design the app to run alongside the game to display information about where you are on the route, what you should be carrying at that point, how far you've brought each commodity etc.
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At some point I'd like to convert the app to a phone/tablet app for iOS, Android and Windows, sell it and retire on the massive amounts of money I'd make. But I'm pretty lazy, so that is extremely unlikely. It would be great to have on a mobile device, though.
Download from here.
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Feedback and suggestions are welcome. As is cash.
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This is currently a very bare bones DOS executable with basic functionality. Answer the questions (what permits you have, max Ls you are prepared to fly to stations, preferred minimum distance before selling) sit back and wait for the route to be optimised, type in a filename for the text instructions to be saved to. No additional libraries or downloads are required to run this.
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I email the output to myself to get it onto my phone. From there I copy it into my Notes app which I already use for storing information about Elite discoveries etc.
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I plan to add a bit more data and functionality to improve filtering and the output. Initially, I will add info about which stations are outposts so that Large Landing Pad requiring Commanders can filter those out. Then I plan to add information about which rare items are classed as illegal and which stations don't care or have Black Markets so that you aren't told to sell those commodities at stations that you can't sell them at.
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I may then leave the tool at that stage. It'll be functional but not very pretty. I prefer playing Elite to writing software, but I might then convert the app into a nice GUI based Windows app - complete with auto downloading of update data and pretty visualisations of the route. I'd also design the app to run alongside the game to display information about where you are on the route, what you should be carrying at that point, how far you've brought each commodity etc.
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At some point I'd like to convert the app to a phone/tablet app for iOS, Android and Windows, sell it and retire on the massive amounts of money I'd make. But I'm pretty lazy, so that is extremely unlikely. It would be great to have on a mobile device, though.
Download from here.
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Feedback and suggestions are welcome. As is cash.
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