You should be able to look up Pricing and Availability of Commodities, Ships and Modules...
Just like we are able to do today on the InterWebs...
I don't leave out of the house without knowing:
Where I'm going.
If they have IT.
Can I Reserve a Particular Item.
What does It Cost?
It will Still take time Flying Around to different locations to gather what you need...
But it will end the Stupidity.
For me it was when I finally got enough Chedder to buy my first Vulture.
Down in the Laedla area, I was very Happy to find a Vulture in an outlaying system.
I Bought It... Heck Yeah! Go to Outfiting, no Joy!
No Modules Available...
Even Stripped Down, I couldn't fly my new Vulture back to my Base System.
Wound up having to Sell my New Vulture back and pick up a Sidey to get home.
Finally wound up Buying and A-Rating a Coby, then flying it out to where the Vulture was available.
Selling all my A-Rated Modules in Outfitting.
Traded my Coby in on my Second New Vulture.
Then went and Bought Back my A-Rated Modules in Outfitting.
I was then able to fly my Second New Vulture home and finish Upgrading her..l
I didn't figure this out immediately, it was a week or so after my First Vulture Fiasco.
It truly doesn't need to be this Asinine...
Sill Loving ED!!!
-gus