the most profitable trade route in game

[sivran]

Incorrect. Open the program and look for yourself before you start telling people the wrong thing.

It is correct in, for example, saying there is a profit of $1533 per "unit" of passengers from Planet New Berlin to Planet Manhatten. It is also correct that assuming it takes 12 minutes for the trip, that's ~213 cents per second.

Unfortunately it does not take into account that passengers take up two units of cargo. It doesn't calculate profit per cargo space at all, making FLCompanion somewhat misleading when dealing with items that require multiple cargo spaces.

Wait, I see now (I've been fiddling with it as I'm writing this) - you have to feed it the cargo size of your ship, or at least a large number, otherwise it will be off. Only when I put in the options the 3495 spaces I have, did the numbers begin to make sense. So it's bugged with respect to its default view, where it should've divided the profit by the weight of the cargo, but didn't.



The wording of the options is misleading. I played with them before, but the numbers didn't make sense with the low numbers I was putting in for cargo units, so I stopped and just did the division myself. If price per 1 unit is actually price per 1 commodity, it logically followed that the other option also meant price per x commodities (clearly, an option for the lazy). Never occured to me til now to put the size of my hold there.

So I should add the qualifier, "by default" to my earlier statement. Then it holds true. By default it ignores weight/size/whatever you want to call it and simply tells you the profit per commodity, not per cargo space.

Incidentally I timed myself on a few runs and found its default timing values to be fairly good, accurate to within a few seconds, assuming no distractions. Heh.

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