You might remember me as the guy that made some resource maps and posted them up for people to view them here:
https://x4-maps.neocities.org/
One thing that started irritating me was I was spending too much time trying to find good trades and there wasn't a good way to search for them in the games UI.
I was always trying to find a trade and sectors were popping up as results that were nearby on the UI but far away in number of jumps, and there's no visibility on big differences between buys and sells on the map, if there are multiple options to buy from it only lists one and a few more things.
So at the weekend I did something about it. I had a look in the save files and reverse engineered them as best I could (don't do this to yourself by the way, egosoft, how many different things can you call connection or component??), and I wrote a little console app that lets me trawl my save file for things I'm interested in.
Search for
- All sellers/buyers within X sectors of a sector
- Max % profit
- Max profit / m3
- Total available profit on a route
- Net supply/demand for ware by sector
- Net supply/demand in a sector by ware
- Option exists if you want to toggle the ability to search stations you haven't discovered yet (off by default)
- The 2-5% reputation discounts aren't accounted for, I'm not sure how to map the reputation in the save file to a %, so didnt
- I havent filtered out stations from your enemies, or your blocklists, as I don't have any in my game and am lazy
- I havent filtered out by how recently you visited the station/have visibility on it, same as above
Give it a go, I've put it up as a link on the page above. You can put requests for features and so on below but I'll most likely not do anything about it.
Before a second round of people complain my maps are laid out in weird places, yes, I know, thats the point. Its was to learn the connections between the sectors better, so its layout is completely random every time. Sometimes it will look pretty much like the map you're used to, sometimes it will be upside down, sometimes bits of it will be moved around in surprising ways. Given two or three minutes, you can drag all the nodes to the same positions you are used to though and just leave it open like that in a browser forever. It's actually a good exercise, doing it will make you learn how it all fits together a bit better.
This looks really great, thanks!
