General Trade info overhaul

[chrometiger]

Since Odyssey, I have found a few things that in my opinion could use for some overhauling with trade data.
Though Inara does a great job, and before Odyssey the ingame trade data worked well. But I would suggest and
like to see in game data for trade info work better. Currently in game it does not pick up data from fleet carriers, and
the sheer number of carriers about makes it a nightmare to try to find trade data in game, and on Inara. And I'm not
talking about while in the stations trader, I'm talking in the galaxy map. Having the ability to see real time data
(from the last server tick at least) would tremendously help.

As a community we've lost 1 great site EDDB, so overhauling how traders can access this in game and possibly
making it easier for Inara to grab all trade data possible would be great for the game.

 

[Schmack]

I don't want to see in game fleet carrier data because it's too unreliable and player driven.

The magic of finding a great trade route vanished once I found the 3rd party tools and realized I wasn't doing "optimal" trade runs. Prior to that my trade routes were based on what I found during my travels. I hauled bio-waste (mission hauling) for a long time with a great back and forth between two systems with no missions going anywhere but to each other. Once I realized the bubble trade routes were optimized at 3rd party sites and everyone could just filter to the best ones, I stopped trading except for CGs and mining. These days I don't even look at the commodities. I'd rather have the jump range and lack of "tasty cargo" noise than the measly return from 3rd party trade loop gaming.

 

[bangermsuk]

inara had to slow down it updated trade routes because it was overwhelming the database. that is why you get the delayed trade actions of +4 days. and i couldn't blame them.
has for carriers i don't see many people using the trade route to get extra income, has most of them are squadron/friends related.
i thing out of 4-5 years playing i only use 1 carrier from a diffrent squadron to buy / sell gold. made a tidy profit too .

 

[Greasetrap42]

I much rather getting info like trade data from a 3rd party for one BIG reason:

<< The ED interface snaps you out of whatever you are looking at every time you enter/exit supercruise or hyperspace jump. >>

For me this makes looking up stuff ingame intolerable. Especially if you are trying to engage in activities like trade runs... where its during supposed game "downtime" (when your ship is launching or travelling) that you want to make use of these types of tools. Just imagine INARA auto closing every time you try looking up some info.

 

[chrometiger]

inara had to slow down it updated trade routes because it was overwhelming the database. that is why you get the delayed trade actions of +4 days. and i couldn't blame them.
has for carriers i don't see many people using the trade route to get extra income, has most of them are squadron/friends related.
i thing out of 4-5 years playing i only use 1 carrier from a diffrent squadron to buy / sell gold. made a tidy profit too .

This is what I am meaning. Overhaul it. Make the ability to turn of FC data in game and/or fix the data in game. I've played this game since launch and I've made billions selling commodities. Before Odysee I could easily find good trade routes in game without Inara or EDDB. I use them as well but the data is old. I think Fdev needs to overhaul how the data is displayed in game and how it's able to be grabbed by Inara. There are people who use the in game things to make lots of money even if some doesn't think ppl do.

 

[chrometiger]

I don't want to see in game fleet carrier data because it's too unreliable and player driven.

The magic of finding a great trade route vanished once I found the 3rd party tools and realized I wasn't doing "optimal" trade runs. Prior to that my trade routes were based on what I found during my travels. I hauled bio-waste (mission hauling) for a long time with a great back and forth between two systems with no missions going anywhere but to each other. Once I realized the bubble trade routes were optimized at 3rd party sites and everyone could just filter to the best ones, I stopped trading except for CGs and mining. These days I don't even look at the commodities. I'd rather have the jump range and lack of "tasty cargo" noise than the measly return from 3rd party trade loop gaming.

Hence why I think it needs overhauled. Give the ability to turn it off. and/or fixing it so it displays properly if you have it turned on.