List of all systems in ED

[Hawkcode]

Hi,

I have the steam version and have been trying to find where on my machine I might find any data files ED uses. I want to create a program to track activities. I know there's a few out there but I want to take a crack at it.

To do this I want to get list of all the star names and any other data that is available like Faction, economy and so forth. I figured that would be local to the machine but have not been able to find it.

Would also nice to get a list of Stations but that might be asking too much.

Does anybody have an idea how I might get this information? It seems some of the other programmers did?

Thanks

[woessonio]

Dunno. Seems all data in memory is encrypted, same as packets between your machine and the server. Log files are containing info only about your ship, current system and the station where you docked.

[FoxnEagle]

Originally posted by Rich:

Hi,

I have the steam version and have been trying to find where on my machine I might find any data files ED uses. I want to create a program to track activities. I know there's a few out there but I want to take a crack at it.

To do this I want to get list of all the star names and any other data that is available like Faction, economy and so forth. I figured that would be local to the machine but have not been able to find it.

Would also nice to get a list of Stations but that might be asking too much.

Does anybody have an idea how I might get this information? It seems some of the other programmers did?

Thanks

If you are talking about the trade routes on the edtrade site, I believe those have all been submitted by users and reviewed by admins for namesake (eg someone typeing Blue instead of Belu)

All the galaxy and system stuff seems to be handled server side, or procedurally generated (inhabited space and uninhabited respectively)

[woessonio]

AFAIK Earlier Slopey's BPC had kinda "market scraper" able to read from memory, but it doesn't work anymore. :\

[CharlieDelta]

some of the data your looking for is server side and FD has said they don't want users scraping the data, so the major tools, like slopeys BPC, Thrudd's Elite Trading tools and eddb etc...use data contributed through user upload. Thrudds users have an account that determines what parts of the database they have access to and what they can modify, afaik, the others let anyone do it. There's the Elite Dangerous Data Network[forums.frontier.co.uk] which is like a pipeline of data collected through many other tools, compiled into a single file and periodically pushed back out to applications so they can take advantage of the user updates added in the other tools. That's probably the closest you could get to what your looking for without crossing the developers' line in the sand.

[Agony_Aunt]

The clostest thing you get is the log files, but you want to enable verbose logging in your ini to get more details.

There is an existing program called eddiscover that does this sort of thing, and an active guy on the ED IRC channel is working on a similar thing.

If you want more information, pop onto the Elite-Dangerous IRC channel on quakenet and speak with GenarHoefen - hes on every day.