Please help me using slopeys trade tool

[Jake Savage]

When I try to run slopeys trade tool I enter the name of the system that I am in, and then slopeys freezes. I think it's because I installed ED onto drive b not drive c so slopeys can't find the data it needs. Is there any way I can tell slopeys where to look? And if so which directory does it need?
thanks guys.

 

[CloneWarrior85]

You have Slopey topic to ask questions about it.

Also, the app isn't working, as far i know, since the devs closed the files that all these apps used to read. The devs want to make a decent API for all these wonderfull people who make 3rd party apps for ED.

 

[Jake Savage]

You have Slopey topic to ask questions about it.

Also, the app isn't working, as far i know, since the devs closed the files that all these apps used to read. The devs want to make a decent API for all these wonderfull people who make 3rd party apps for ED.

Ahh oh well. Thanks anyway

 

[Hap]

In the settings you can point slopey's tool to you log files. These are in the folder the game is installed. This may be the Product folder in the EDLaunch folder or in a Frontier folder in the usual program files place.
You are looking for a folder called 'FORC-FDEV-D-1002' and then in that 'Logs'

This only allows slopey's tool to see what system you are currently in (if you have the logging option turned on, which the tool will prompt about once you point it to the log file folder).

If the tool is freezing, is this just a once off after you install, then it's probably some other issue and not that fact it can't see the log file.

Edit due to previous post: The tool does not scrap prices or info from the game files, all of that is submitted by players in the tool so it is working but it's not foolproof.

 

[kylania]

Make sure you have the latest version, then click Options and set the path there. Slopey's thread has the download link and instructions for finding the folder.

 

[Jake Savage]

In the settings you can point slopey's tool to you log files. These are in the folder the game is installed. This may be the Product folder in the EDLaunch folder or in a Frontier folder in the usual program files place.
You are looking for a folder called 'FORC-FDEV-D-1002' and then in that 'Logs'

This only allows slopey's tool to see what system you are currently in (if you have the logging option turned on, which the tool will prompt about once you point it to the log file folder).

If the tool is freezing, is this just a once off after you install, then it's probably some other issue and not that fact it can't see the log file.

Edit due to previous post: The tool does not scrap prices or info from the game files, all of that is submitted by players in the tool so it is working but it's not foolproof.

Thank you i have done that and it now says downloading market data, then it says download error. So I quit slopeys and reloaded and ...........same thing.
I will try again tomorrow it's back to the for me.

 

[Zplintz]

I had to point the tool at the forcedev folder (ie pointed at the folder with the log file folder in it not inside the log file folder) to get it to download the data.

This tool seems designed to tell you what commodities to take from a single location to all others within a distance radius you give it. It also calculates the best profit versus your bank balance and cargo space.

When FD took away the ability to scrape the current system data, they forced Slopey to implement manual entry and it isn't ideal. I think FD were completely justified in doing this as it was causing game instability - access this way also made security an issue.

The only downsides (for me) are adding new prices can be a little slow (especially if you are alt-tabbing) and I have already found a few instances where the sell price was 3 times higher than they should be (leading to a huge profit margin for a journey that would have left any trader making a loss). I guess someone either entered incorrectly or just couldn't help themselves. I managed to add the correct prices easily enough but the data ultimately is only as accurate as the people who entered it.

I am still holding out for a publicly available API from FD that will at least allow scraping data for the system the player is currently in. Recording my own data easily and being able to organise it is more important than galaxy wide pricing to me.

That said, this is still a good tool.