[RELEASE] Slopey's BPC Market Tool! - New version!

At first thanks for this tool : it is really useful !

I've encountered two BPC V4.2.1.0 freeze when I tried to update commodities prices from "Grid Update", just after hitting "Save Data". (can't do anything in the window and move or close it, needed to kill it) Before that I haven't got problem to make this and it work after.

Also, the calculation of "Amount" to take in different station don't consider "Avail Stock"...

Could it be the station data you have is outdated?
 

Slopey

Volunteer Moderator
I killed it after 11 hours and 620,000 "things". I also ran it again for an hour this morning. Hopefully it doesn't have to start from scratch everytime...

An "N of M" message would be nice so you can get an idea of how long it will take.

Are you on 4.2.1.0?

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Also, the calculation of "Amount" to take in different station don't consider "Avail Stock"...

Yep, that'll be fixed in the next update which I'm reasonably far along with now.

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Everytime Ive tried to access the web version it says offline, back in a while. Am I just unlucky or is it gone entirely in favour of the .exe version?

As per many previous replies to previous posters, it'll be back in due course. As will the round trip functionality.
 
Hi

Trying to install the newest version as the last version 4. something is crashing all the time now in Win 8 x64, and it is saying cannot load genteert.dll, after clicking the installer exe. This was from the version downloaded today three times, the last version was horribly unstable, either throwing exceptions or crashing completely quite often during the auto-update process, do you have any idea what is causing this? Thanks
 
Does the program make any alterations to the ED_BPC.exe file (I don't see why). I'm just curious as I was moving stuff around last night and hit my power bar cable and it interrupted the power to my PC. I'm trying to launch the program but it says it isn't a valid App anymore. I noticed the file is now 0 bytes and obviously became corrupted. Not a big deal, i'll just redownload.
 
I was stupid enough to try an 'all to all' query. It crashed. Whenever I tried to query something, even stations in the same system it would crash giving me an out of bounds error.
Rebooted my pc, still same problem, so I thought I'd just reinstal it. Now it's unable to connect. It's not even saying current users...

Any ideas? Rly love this little program, so it sucks that I'm unable to use it atm. I'm also about to make a 250 LY trip, so I want to make it worthwile.
 
I was stupid enough to try an 'all to all' query. It crashed. Whenever I tried to query something, even stations in the same system it would crash giving me an out of bounds error.
Rebooted my pc, still same problem, so I thought I'd just reinstal it. Now it's unable to connect. It's not even saying current users...

Any ideas? Rly love this little program, so it sucks that I'm unable to use it atm. I'm also about to make a 250 LY trip, so I want to make it worthwile.


I fixed the no connection thing. Still unable to do a search without crashing though

I'll send the link to a gist in a PM since I'm not allowed to post links apparently.
 
Hi Slopey

the search function seems to have broken on me.

it is no longer showing lots of the commodities despite when doing a 'system data' them showing up - edit hmm - seems someone has delted a load of data from a station i was trading with. not a bug

bpc error.jpg

it is also doing the repeat item issue again - see above
 
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No Current Station Detection

Is there a problem with the Verbose Logging again?
The Current Station is not being detected for me as of today.
Worked fine yesterday.

The OCR is having the same trouble.

This is the bottom section of my AppConfig.xml
Does it look right?

Code:
 <Network>
    VerboseLogging="1"
    Port="0"
    upnpenabled="1"
    LogFile="netLog"
    DatestampLog="1"
  />
	  
 <GameObjects />
</AppConfig>

I've done a complete clean reinstall of 4.2.1.0 and it's still not seeing Current Station

SORTED - It was a syntax thing.
Not quite sure how the line </Network> got lost but deleting the file and running reverify got me the original back.
Then all I had to do was add the VerboseLogging="1" line again :cool:

Should look like this:-
Code:
  <Network
   VerboseLogging="1"
   Port="0"
   upnpenabled="1"
   LogFile="netLog"
   DatestampLog="1"
   >

  </Network>
 <GameObjects />
</AppConfig>
 
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Wow, very helpful attitudes. Fogazi, maybe some people actually have other stuff going on in their lives. I dunno, maybe families, jobs, maybe even have to go to a special room in the house to clean up. 134+ pages of replies isn't a 5-minute read-through. The quicker I am to getting this thing to work (and understanding it), the quicker the community gets more info, right?

Slugsie, I did read the OP, however, after a few searches, a few tools are either no longer supported, not been updated in some time, etc. and most tutorials I find on YT are beta/gamma versions of the game. Sorry if I wanted to ask to get up-to-date info.





Thank you for an actual helpful reply, Slopey! I am going to clear my data/DB and start fiddling with EliteOCR, hopefully that'll give me better prices.

Don't play the helping the community card after saying "TL;DR" on a thread full of information. You did not even attempt to figure it out yourself. Pure arrogance. If you have time to play Elite, then you have a spare 10 minutes to read a few posts or even google the answer. Ever thought of filtering out the old videos on Youtube??? I have uploaded over 10 in the last 2-3 weeks all showing how to use these tools.
 

Slopey

Volunteer Moderator
Hi

Trying to install the newest version as the last version 4. something is crashing all the time now in Win 8 x64, and it is saying cannot load genteert.dll, after clicking the installer exe. This was from the version downloaded today three times, the last version was horribly unstable, either throwing exceptions or crashing completely quite often during the auto-update process, do you have any idea what is causing this? Thanks

The BPC doesn't use genteert.dll. I have no idea what that is. EDIT - actually, it would appear it's part of the installer. Try downloading the installer again, might be corrupted. But I've had no other reports of problems with it. Could be your anti-virus being paranoid and deleting it or something?

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Hi Slopey

the search function seems to have broken on me.

it is no longer showing lots of the commodities despite when doing a 'system data' them showing up - edit hmm - seems someone has delted a load of data from a station i was trading with. not a bug

(snip - picture)

it is also doing the repeat item issue again - see above

If you're not attached to the data, clear it down and force an update. There were some changes to the DB for the 42xx versions to improve speed and date handling, and some of those have resulted in a few in consistencies - the duplicates are from the previous version, unless you delete the data (data over a certain date for example), they'll stay there unless you delete them manually (right click on system/commod grids).

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Does the program make any alterations to the ED_BPC.exe file (I don't see why). I'm just curious as I was moving stuff around last night and hit my power bar cable and it interrupted the power to my PC. I'm trying to launch the program but it says it isn't a valid App anymore. I noticed the file is now 0 bytes and obviously became corrupted. Not a big deal, i'll just redownload.

Most likely a disk error when the power went off.
 
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Wow, very helpful attitudes. Fogazi, maybe some people actually have other stuff going on in their lives. I dunno, maybe families, jobs, maybe even have to go to a special room in the house to clean up. 134+ pages of replies isn't a 5-minute read-through. The quicker I am to getting this thing to work (and understanding it), the quicker the community gets more info, right?

Slugsie, I did read the OP, however, after a few searches, a few tools are either no longer supported, not been updated in some time, etc. and most tutorials I find on YT are beta/gamma versions of the game. Sorry if I wanted to ask to get up-to-date info.
You can search within threads using the little search box above the first post.

Just wanted to say this is becoming one of my fav tools of choice.

Just wondering if planning a route feature will return?

Bruteman.
Apparently so, but soon (tm).
 

Slopey

Volunteer Moderator
I fixed the no connection thing. Still unable to do a search without crashing though

I'll send the link to a gist in a PM since I'm not allowed to post links apparently.

Can you email me your ED4.db file please to slopey@slopey.com?

I'm trying to catch this one in the act but everyone I ask for more information just ignores me :( . Also, do you have a non English language set on your machine, such as Hungarian or similar?

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Apparently so, but soon (tm).

No - route finding won't be back because we don't have coordinates for many systems, and it would appear there's been a bit of a galaxy regen recently so some have moved. Until we get a coherent source of coordinates (I'm not sure EDSC is that accurate currently), there's no point doing route finding.

What will be back soon is the round trip feature, and a "radius" search.
 
Hey Slopey

I did what you said and deleted my ED directory, much as I wanted to keep all my old data, then deleted the back up, then relaunched

then added in my recent data from EliteOCR as no one else had visited these stations and did a search and the same problem returned, I'm getting 4 results per station (where its my data). It seems that each station is getting uploaded twice, or maybe it is one stored locally and 1 on the server. But if you look at the time stamps they are between 10-20 seconds apart so something odd is happening here - unless its EliteOCR that is borking it.

2BPC error.jpg2BPC error2.jpg



see pics.

edit

I just tried deleting data individually from the local database and it seems if i delete 1 item, both disappear. (under sytem data tab)

very strange
 
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It is obvious that the program is working normaly for them. I just want to know what is wrong with my installation. Slopey isnt answering to this same question asked by other users.

Slopey can you at least give a reply like i dont know whats causing this or errrr. Your are the unlucky ones sorry cant do anything.
 
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