Trade-helper tweaks

Thursday 26th March, 2015 · Posted by Roguey · 1 comments

In the past you may of noticed that I had a few problems with the trade-helper. After re-coding the trade-helper I have been cautious of increasing the data lifetime (encase it causes more problems again).

Whilst playing Elite I noticed how little the ware prices change - ive returned to old trading-routes after days / weeks and they seem unchanged. I honestly thought that the ware prices would change a lot than they do. So with this mind I have increased the data lifetime range, seeing as the new code seems to be running okay;

- Both the Mk1 and Mk2 now go back 99 days (rather than 31 days),
- Mk3 has been increased to 31 days (from 21 days),

Please let me know if there is any issues or slow-downs - hopefully the updated code wont show any signs of problems even with this increase. If this goes okay, then I may increase the Mk3.

I have also added a small calculation to the Mk3 to work out the percentage profit per unit. I added this calculation because sometimes EliteOCR can get the numbers wrong. When this happens then it makes it look like you can make an insane amount of profit, which isnt the case. Now offers with > 500% profit per unit are removed automatically.

I just want to thank everyone who has helped update the universe data. We now have over 37,000 ware prices in the database! So hopefully this little tweak will make a little better use of it.

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