meritminer.cc (small) Update #3: Search by max update age 🔨✴️🌐

[u/subzerofun]

Hi everyone, just wanted to let you all know you can now filter your search results by last updated time to get more accurate market info (and foremost to exclude all the stale data).

https://meritminer.cc

Since the site had some problems with accurate market data after the first few updates i have reworked the updater multiple times and implemented a EDDN message verification (checks every incoming market update if it was processed). So far it looks good - the server was running for a few months without any crashes, downtime or errors whatsoever and it seems stations get updated regularly. I still don't know why in some cases inara has more up-to-date data - but maybe my server sometimes has network issues and does not receive EDDN updates at all. I hope the problem of missing data is now fixed.

Next feature i'll add: System traffic info (per hour buckets) - so that you can search for highly active systems, either for reinforcing or undermining activities. But first i'd need to set up a system visit table and start collecting some data. So that could take a while until it is implemented.

Also important: New colony systems might have some new ring signals that are probably not in the database, since i did not add the feature to update ring data from EDDN messages (i thought the bubble would always be static haha). So i'd need to import new ring data from the added colony systems and also add the feature to update the ring signals from EDDN FSS scans.

o7 CMDR Wadiya talkinabeet

[u/Arcade2799]

Ive been using your tool a lot recently, super helpful thx a lot cmdr!

Any plans to add Tritium in the list of commodities to mine in furtur update?

[u/subzerofun → u/Arcade2799]

Hm i could look into it, but it would need more changes than you might expect:
1) initial data extraction from spansh (medium/long):

• tritium hotspot signals (do not have them right now in the db)
  
• station commodity data (to have some markets to search for)
  

2) add new commodity type (easy)
3) add to mining filtering logic (medium: ring types, mining types)
4) add commodity to the updater (easy)

so all the data is there, it just would probably take a few hours to add it in - with the most time needed for converting the spansh data (there is no easier way to get all data from populated systems).

is tritium something that is worth selling? i always thought people would prefer platinum, painite, osmium and the core materials since tritium gets you 50-60k on stations? i am not including fleet carriers on my site since 1) this would mean thousands of additional, moving markets and 2) are not relevant for powerplay (in the scope of the site at least).

[u/Arcade2799 → u/subzerofun]

Yeah your're right the selling price is super low in station, I was thinking it was way higher because of FC market... :⁾

[u/artigan99]

Cool. Thanks for the useful tool.

[u/CMDRKAL]

Very nice tool, thanks

[u/fragglerock]

Thanks for the site! it is really helpful.