I've just created a tool for myself to keep track of trade prices in elite, i'm well aware of the other tools available for this purpose but I've chosen not to use them the main reason for this is that I don't want to be told where the best trade routes are even when I have yet to visit that system.
The tool seems to work well enough for my needs so I thought i'd see if anyone else was interested in it, if so I can add some notes to it on usage and put it up for downloading, if this doesn't interest you then feel free to skip the rest of this post, if however you are then I'll continue with some details of the tool.
First of all this is an Microsoft Access database so to use it you need to have Access or the Access runtime (essentially a cut-down version of Access with no design tools) installed.
Secondly until a Couple of days ago I had never touched Access so there's probably better ways of doing things, but it works fine so i'm happy
The reasons for why I made it:
A few caveats, like every trade tool in ED you can't currently update it automatically, so all data has to be input manually (I take screenshots of the commodity market and add the data from that).
It's not crowd-sourced so no data for places you have yet to visit.
No trade-routes as such, however it will show you the top ten most profitable commodities in relation to the market average and where they are brought/sold from.
If you use the Access runtime as far as i'm aware it has no design facilities so i'm unsure if it's possible to access the tables directly should the need to update a pre-existing price, if there's interest in this beyond just me I can look at adding a means to update the tool if you do use the runtime.
If you do decide to use this then please be aware that I created this for my own personal use, support/feature additions are in no way guaranteed.
That's the general idea anyway, if your interested in this becoming available post here and let me know. I'll finish up with a few screenshots.
The tool seems to work well enough for my needs so I thought i'd see if anyone else was interested in it, if so I can add some notes to it on usage and put it up for downloading, if this doesn't interest you then feel free to skip the rest of this post, if however you are then I'll continue with some details of the tool.
First of all this is an Microsoft Access database so to use it you need to have Access or the Access runtime (essentially a cut-down version of Access with no design tools) installed.
Secondly until a Couple of days ago I had never touched Access so there's probably better ways of doing things, but it works fine so i'm happy
The reasons for why I made it:
- Replace pen and paper - ok for a few systems beyond that it becomes too cumbersome.
- Keep commodity prices for all stations I visit.
- Search by commodity and show where it can be brought/sold and profits/losses compared to the market average
- Needed to be stand-alone
A few caveats, like every trade tool in ED you can't currently update it automatically, so all data has to be input manually (I take screenshots of the commodity market and add the data from that).
It's not crowd-sourced so no data for places you have yet to visit.
No trade-routes as such, however it will show you the top ten most profitable commodities in relation to the market average and where they are brought/sold from.
If you use the Access runtime as far as i'm aware it has no design facilities so i'm unsure if it's possible to access the tables directly should the need to update a pre-existing price, if there's interest in this beyond just me I can look at adding a means to update the tool if you do use the runtime.
If you do decide to use this then please be aware that I created this for my own personal use, support/feature additions are in no way guaranteed.
That's the general idea anyway, if your interested in this becoming available post here and let me know. I'll finish up with a few screenshots.
