Yeah exactly, it's main purpose is to parse yor logs. Which, given the fact that Elite does make logs, makes from ED Discovery a required tool in my opinion - because if logs are present, then i'd want to have a good way to read through them, and find out what is my favourite ship (at least which of them travelled most lys), when did i buy my Clipper, when and where i've discovered my first ELW and when and where i upgraded my Dom suit to G4. One might not care about the answer just at this point, but once another question may rise, so the tool is nice to have at hand.They are totally different. EDDiscovery reads all your journals and puts them into readable, searchable form. That alone makes it worth using. But it's not a targetted app like EliteObservatory. It has tons of features, maybe too many. I mostly use the History and Ledger tabs, and also the Ship Loadout list (it keeps track of all your ships and their current loadouts, and can auto dump them into Coriolis or EDSY). I can also check back on any system I've been to and see what's there.
I also use it to auto-save my screenshots in .jpg format so I can upload them without problems (and it names them according to where and when they were taken).
It's quite useful, but more broad. The 2 don't intersect much, although there is some overlap.
All that at a cost of some GBs on your SSD (databases are big, so only SSD, around 3 GBs for Galaxy data if you care to dl it + 0.5 GB journals data per 1k hours of play or so roughly) and 2 or so GBs of RAM when you have it running. So it's a little heavy, but it's built in blocks and you can enable only the modules you wish to have.
That's a lot of stuff... I usually get fed up with mining soon after crossing a 4-digits line and wander elsewhere. 3,5k Platinum is nearly a billion, if you sell at 280k, that alone makes 20k tons of Tritium if you load it yourself.The time I went, I hitched a ride on a squad mates fleet carrier. The next time I go, I'll be jumping my own fleet carrier...I'm out in the black filling up at a metallic ring to fund my next tritium purchase, which, BTW, I found out the other day that I can get someone else to do the carting for me.
The "Tritium Monkeys" charge an additional 25k (so Gal Ave +50%) per ton to load your carrier with Tritium as a way to help the loaders be able to afford their own carrier one day...
Here's a link, which will expire in 7 days, to their Discord, https://discord.gg/hUfDQ3Ys
Gomez, are you still out in Elysian Shore? My Carrier is still nearby if you want a safe place, closer than the bubble, to drop off some carto data. Let me know...
I can confirm that +50% Gal Avg price works - i'm not affiliated with any group, but since a while already i sometimes set 77k orders and they're often fullfilled in a couple of days. Not sure if i helped anyone with their road to a carrier with my modest 2k or 5k amounts, but 30k profit per ton is a nice thing in any case.