its a very cool program. lot less buggy than most.
my only concern is that is does not seem to have a knock-on effect -
if i wanna work out the next best factory to buy i look for big -ve numbers in the res. right?
like if crystals are like -10 then a good idea is to build a crystal mine.
from what i can tell energy cells are in a surplus in bascially every sector. i.e big positive numbers.
which actually disuades you from building any SPP's at all. in the game SPP would lose money if the NPC stations were at 100% production. but they're not there short of crystals.
if you program could say "if crystals are short then energy cells aint gonna be comming out at 100%" then it would accurately show that SPP's are a good idea.
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Yup, -ve numbers are demand.seanbro wrote: my only concern is that is does not seem to have a knock-on effect -
if i wanna work out the next best factory to buy i look for big -ve numbers in the res. right?
like if crystals are like -10 then a good idea is to build a crystal mine.
from what i can tell energy cells are in a surplus in bascially every sector. i.e big positive numbers.
which actually disuades you from building any SPP's at all. in the game SPP would lose money if the NPC stations were at 100% production. but they're not there short of crystals.
if you program could say "if crystals are short then energy cells aint gonna be comming out at 100%" then it would accurately show that SPP's are a good idea.
I agree with what you've said as I was thinking about it the other day, however when you start thinking about it, it becomes incredibly complex, for eaxmple if I have a lack of Soja Beans then:
Soja Husk production is low->
Crystal fab production is low->
Energy cell production is low->
Silicon mine production is low->
Crystal fab products is *LOWER*?
etc..
Also it doesn't cover the fact that I am using freighters much faster than the AI, so my factories are running at 100% by the AI's are not.
Also because products are being produced more slowly the resources are used more slowly, which in the end will have a knock on effect for the entire sector.
As you can probably appreciate, it just gets far too complex to even think about modelling this side of the economy.
When looking at the resource usage, you can get an idea that there may be some resource issues that you will need to fix if you want to use that product. i.e. some paranid sectors start of with Soja Husk +3 Soja Beans -2. This shows clearly that it is unlikely that the Soja Husk fabs will be producing at full speed.
On the SPP side of things, what do you have your jumps set to? If you set it to 5 then almost all the sectors will show up as having enough energy, however I usually use either 1 or 0, and sometimes 2.
Also you should note that most people "force sell" (i.e. have selling transports) for SPP's which does allow you to make a profit in a sector that has surplus energy.
A final note about SPP's is that the NPC ones appear to produce energy at a slightly lower rate than player ones, once I have proper information about this, I will update SectorPlanner appropriately.
I hope this helps
Cheers
LS
PS NPC Solar power plants always run at 100% as they don't *need* crystals to run - they're a secondary resources.
it could be nice to be able to print out where your facories is
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The info I would like to be able to print is the data on resource usage for a sector at X jumps. So when in the game, I don't have to remember what factory I needed to put there.
Idealy I would have another computer running with it on so I could double check the info. My missus would not be too happy though!
Another possible idea for improvement would be to make the display area for resource usage and stations larger to display all the data with out scrolling. But make them selectable on Tabs so that only one is visible at a time.
I attempted to create something similar over the Easter break, in excell. It involved looking at a sector and manualy calculating all the requirements for each station (using data from argonopedia) to find the holes in the supply chain. Needless to say after spending nearly 4 hours looking at Argon prime I decided that there must be an easier way!
Your sector planner is the answer.
Mark
The info I would like to be able to print is the data on resource usage for a sector at X jumps. So when in the game, I don't have to remember what factory I needed to put there.
Idealy I would have another computer running with it on so I could double check the info. My missus would not be too happy though!
Another possible idea for improvement would be to make the display area for resource usage and stations larger to display all the data with out scrolling. But make them selectable on Tabs so that only one is visible at a time.
I attempted to create something similar over the Easter break, in excell. It involved looking at a sector and manualy calculating all the requirements for each station (using data from argonopedia) to find the holes in the supply chain. Needless to say after spending nearly 4 hours looking at Argon prime I decided that there must be an easier way!
Your sector planner is the answer.
Mark
Mark,
I like the idea about the tabs for the resource / station list - I'll look into implementing that. For the time being there is actually a "splitter" between the two grids (if you haven't found it already) so you can resize one to a small size which should help.
I'll also look into the printing - to be honest I didn't think about it as I run SectorPlanner on my laptop while I'm playing....
I've never tried to do any printing from .NET so it'll be a bit of fun!
Cheers
LS
I like the idea about the tabs for the resource / station list - I'll look into implementing that. For the time being there is actually a "splitter" between the two grids (if you haven't found it already) so you can resize one to a small size which should help.
I'll also look into the printing - to be honest I didn't think about it as I run SectorPlanner on my laptop while I'm playing....
I've never tried to do any printing from .NET so it'll be a bit of fun!
Cheers
LS
Great app
Great work Lordsuch. This is an extremely useful tool. I was just thinking about building Stott Mixeries in Argon space to help AI Cahoona production, and your app answered the question "where to build" very nicely 
Regarding printing, I don't see the point when you can just hit Alt+Tab and check stuff out while X2 waits in the background. I often check Argonopedia while playing the game. No need to quit the game just because I need to do something else with my computer. Never had any problems with frequent task switching and X2.
Regarding printing, I don't see the point when you can just hit Alt+Tab and check stuff out while X2 waits in the background. I often check Argonopedia while playing the game. No need to quit the game just because I need to do something else with my computer. Never had any problems with frequent task switching and X2.
The link is on my website. But it is:Ytsaot wrote:Ive seen rave reviews about this, but I dont have the .NET framework package. Any idea where I get that from? And is it possible to download on a 56k modem?
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... layLang=en
You might not want to download it via dial up though as it is about 23 MB....
Cheers
LS
Added a plug to The Argonopedia. Looks like a quality tool to me.
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Always trust Darkhold's comments on the subject of SectorPlanner as he was one of the beta testers!Darkhold wrote:reed,
after you add the station go to the station details and change the yield value.
Thanks again to those that beta tested!
LS
PS Darkhold, have you noticed your nick in the about box?
Heh I think 'beta tester' is a little high for me firing off a bunch of requests for you to add 
. I was very honored when I saw my name in the about box.
I sent you an email thanking you for your hard work. I also started to write out a help doc/faq when I saw all the questions pop up on here but I had to go do some of that 'real life' stuff. Would you want something like that or you already got one of your own that you are writting?
. I was very honored when I saw my name in the about box. I sent you an email thanking you for your hard work. I also started to write out a help doc/faq when I saw all the questions pop up on here but I had to go do some of that 'real life' stuff. Would you want something like that or you already got one of your own that you are writting?
Well without you many of the features that are in sector planner now wouldn't be there!Darkhold wrote:Heh I think 'beta tester' is a little high for me firing off a bunch of requests for you to add
I sent you an email thanking you for your hard work. I also started to write out a help doc/faq when I saw all the questions pop up on here but I had to go do some of that 'real life' stuff. Would you want something like that or you already got one of your own that you are writting?
About the docs, it would be great if you would like to do that - I'm crap at writing docs!
I will be updating the FAQ on the websites in a few hours, but a walkthough type of document would be really useful
Cheers
LS
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