So do they work well?
You can now link your PSN account to EDSM.net to log your journeys!
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So do they work well?
GTA5 for instance, I can work on my cars offline on my tablet and changes take effect in game when I log back in.
It has other features but I use that one the most.
Star Wars Battlefront I can earn credits offline and have them add to my total in game.
I'm sure others have more examples but these are games that I play that have this feature.
Gary
It has other features but I use that one the most.
Star Wars Battlefront I can earn credits offline and have them add to my total in game.
I'm sure others have more examples but these are games that I play that have this feature.
Gary
stormyuk
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Warframe companion app also lets you do quite a lot, building things in the foundry and deploying extractors actively, you can also checking quite lot of in game stuff from current alerts and such as well as access your entire inventory and check Warframe setups and stats. Its a very good app. That kind of thing would take investment from FDev to pull off.
stormyuk
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Yeh, just leave the updated running, I find it a bit hit and miss as it doesn't always update but, its much better than nothing.
As Elite loads up, EDSM is already running. Also at the end of the end night, I update with Inara as well.
Personally, if they could get more data out of our accounts and onto the Inara (mats etc), then I'd use both. One for tracking flight path, and Inara for mats etc. Either way, both are great and I hope improvements keep coming along!
Gary
Personally, if they could get more data out of our accounts and onto the Inara (mats etc), then I'd use both. One for tracking flight path, and Inara for mats etc. Either way, both are great and I hope improvements keep coming along!
Gary
Apologies as I haven't read through the entire thread but I just created an account with EDSM now. I selected PS4 and put my email and commander name and that's it. No where could I see where I had to choose a password for the account or even link my PSN account for that matter. Any ideas?
Post your problems here:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/179063-EDSM-Elite-Dangerous-Star-Map
Anthornet will deal with it - maybe.
Just did it. Thanks.
Thought maybe someone else might have encountered this seeing as this thread is 9 pages long. I'll have a read over a coffee.
If it helps it's easier to register and use on a tablet or Laptop than a mobile phone. Each time something happens on your phone the app will stop and you'll have to restart it. Best used on a device that is not in contant use.
Gary
Gary
I confess... I hoped for something like all jump histories and system visited, routes and first discovered, since account creation... but, this is enough for now
They could be updating their server or doing maintenance. Also, if something is going on with the Frontier Server, it will have effect as well. So it's tied to more place. Patience Young Grasshopper.
Gary
Gary
Yup I get it all the time...old faithful - switch it off and on again - usually works a treat.
i'm guessing it makes a request every 60 seconds, doesn't need nor imply a page refresh.
and a monitor. it keeps the update process alive by polling: it periodically makes a request to frontier servers to fetch new data and store it in edsm. this could happen transparently serverside but this approach is probably more conservative resource wise. it also provides visual feedback on the updates and a way for you to stop the loop.
nope, that doesn't even make sense
the website has of course its own address, yours is unrelated, and none of them are relevant in this scenario, i guess it works like this:login:
- edsm redirects you to frontier auth
- edsm starts polling every 60 secs
polling:
- edsm queries frontier server for your account (you gave permission), gets data
- edsm stores data in its own db
it's really just reading data from frontier and storing it in a database, nothing more. they do not need to impersonate you in any way, nor access any of your devices, just let frontier authenticate you (provided you have authorized edsm as a trusted app to frontier).
note all this is guesswork, i have no insider info, but i guess i'm guessing right!
That pretty much would sum it up, also, yesterday the Playstation network was having issues with Games and Social, so this would have affected this as well. Overall, it's a solid and great service, hopefully in the future more data becomes accessible.
I'm a huge supporter of this and will defend it.
Gary
You can't minimize the Browser window when running the site that will Stop the script completing as modern browsers will not complete the script with out the window open...
It can be run in a tab or secondary window but it will fail if window is Minimized...
If you wish the site to update your profile every 30secs instead of 60 just open a second tab on the site and start the second updater 30 seconds later...
Chrome users of course may not want to do this due to CPU usage required per tab uses...
It can be run in a tab or secondary window but it will fail if window is Minimized...
If you wish the site to update your profile every 30secs instead of 60 just open a second tab on the site and start the second updater 30 seconds later...
Chrome users of course may not want to do this due to CPU usage required per tab uses...
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ahem, actually we should not do this, that's very unpolite. if edsm devs have devised an interval of 60secs it's probably for a reason. you are effectively duplicating server load and traffic per user. ask yourself: do you really need the updates at such frequency? if it's an edge case then i guess it's ok but if all users do this ....
anyway, if this turns problematic it's pretty trivial for edsm devs to get it throttled down but .... why the hassle?
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