' Wrote:Sorry to disappoint you, but a very similar program already exists. Google "Freelancer Companion".
There are certain points of data it can't handle, namely diplomacy, but you can manually exclude any given faction's bases from a trade route. It also doesn't handle the legal status of commodities, since those are subject to mod/server rules, but once again particular commodities can be excluded from calculations.
And the problem with competition is..?
I'm currently on a uni computer, so I can't download it and see what functionality it has, but I'd be surprised if it was exactly the same as what I envisage. But the fact that a tool already exists in no way means I can't try and make a better one, nor does it mean I'm going to abandon my dissertation:P
Especially as my supervisor thinks I might eventually be able to get a publishable paper out of this - the problem as I've modelled it is not one that seems to ever have been studied before.
