I’ve been using FL companion for ages and I found a really good little programme called “freelancer companions companion”
What it does is it integrates with companion
You can select a minimum profit...e.g. $1,000,000 and start the scan, it then uses companion and scans every system/base in the game and then saves as a text file
I then made a spreadsheet of the results (over 125,000 lines)
It’s quite useful in that it works a slightly different way than companion:-
E.g. if I was in Rheinland and wanted to go to Bretonia, I would filter “from” house Rheinland and then the “to” to Bretonia, it would show me the best commodity and base to go from and to go to
it doesnt show ores, just normal commodities, which can be fun to mix about, instead of people just going for the ores
It’s about 10 Meg
But note I’ve made it in Ms Office excel, latest office, might not work well with earlier versions or other spreadsheet programmes other than MS office
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to reset the spreadsheet, remember to clear the filters
Suggestion; instead of everything in Column M being hard-coded for 3340, replace 3340 with, say, N1, so anyone can type in the cargo available to them (in N1), and have it calculate the profit for their specific setup.
EDIT: I'm an idiot, and this is what column M is already for. GG.
(11-04-2016, 09:31 PM)Yeggito Wrote: AND it includes time! ^^
Suggestion; instead of everything in Column M being hard-coded for 3340, replace 3340 with, say, N1, so anyone can type in the cargo available to them (in N1), and have it calculate the profit for their specific setup.
i have
you just change the cargo size of your ship and it calculates your profit, i did that for freighters to land on freighter only bases, as in Bretonia occupied
And maybe make a second sheet for best $ per second? I prefer that, since i wanna make the maximum cash per time if possible. Getting 10m in 5 minutes is better than making 60 mil in 60 minutes.
(11-04-2016, 09:34 PM)Officially_that_Guy Wrote: And maybe make a second sheet for best $ per second? I prefer that, since i wanna make the maximum cash per time if possible. Getting 10m in 5 minutes is better than making 60 mil in 60 minutes.
you can filter the max profit per second
what you do is make that your first option to filter and then the rest "from and to" etc and just mix different filters until it turns up the best option for you
eg the highest profit per second is :=
Skiros Station Omicron Gamma Corsairs CORSAIRS Artifacts Planet Manhattan Liberty Police, Inc. New York LIBERTY $21,182,280.00 1299 $16,301.61 $21,182,280.00
artifacts to manhatten
16,301.61 per second ($21,182,280.00 profit based on a 3340 cargo)
Oh, I realise that. Your spreadsheet will be much more convenient for the vast majority of people. I simply linked to the application in case anyone wants to explore it (or its source code, which is included in the download) for themselves.