Freelancer Best Profit Calc

I’m getting this error when I try to load the program:

"Unhandled exception has occurred in your application. If you click Continue, the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue. If you click Quit, the application will close immediately.

Could not find a part of the path 'C:**Program Files (x86)**\Microsoft Games\Freelancer\IONCROSS\GAMEDATA_systems.txt".

I know what’s wrong with this path as well - you see, for me, the path should be:

“C:*Program Files*\Microsoft Games\Freelancer*Discovery*\IONCROSS\GAMEDATA_systems.txt”.

I think you should get this path out of the registry.

When I click Continue, I have the program, but with no information about commodities or bases.

Also, some servers - like the official Discovery ones - use a semi-dynamic economy, and hence have to modify the client’s memory - but your tool only seems to get the info from the files.

So, if Freelancer is running, can you have it simply pull the current prices out of memory?

save the path to the reg

You misunderstand me - I mean that you should get the path FROM the registry.

My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Freelancer\1.0\AppPath

EDIT: Argh, I just got ninja’d.
2ND EDIT: Still getting the same error.

It’s still not getting information from my registry - now it’s looking in:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Freelancer\IONCROSS\

When, by my registry, it should be going to:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Freelancer\Discovery\IONCROSS\

I can’t understand the Dynamic Economy bit - I’m not going to argue with you unless you decide to not add the feature to check the actual current dynamic prices.

Just out of curiosity, why are you using the Ioncross gamedata files? You’re severely limiting your tool’s usefulness as most mods do not share such files in the public mod versions they release.

Um, have you seen Freelancer Companion?

^^ U sir win the Xarian award for “i was waiting for that”… ^^

FLC can’t output a CSV though… this intrigues me… especially the dynamic econ stuff… will test against FLC and see what else i can find

Okay, so when I load it up first time I still get he error - It is STILL not getting the path from the Freelancer registry!

So I have to use the browse box and edit it, restart the program.

Now I can get it to work - however, if (Any System) is in one of your drop-down boxes, it only returns one result.

I also prefer the way FLCompanion has been laid out - you select a system, then a base in that system, and it gets all the routes that start from that base.

EDIT: What’s this about ‘gimped’ to purposely not show certain routes!?

And would you mind sending me the source code to this, once you have fixed the current known bugs?

Don’t worry, I won’t give it out.

SirTwitch wrote:
i run straight fl with discovery and this is they way everything is layed out on mine so i am going from there.

Well in that case,

SirTwitch wrote:
i am using it on discovery currently but it should work on any version.

Is false. I know only of Discovery to share Ioncross gamedata files (of course there may be others, I haven’t checked all mods out there). You should really consider using INIs instead, safer bet

I have C++ code that parses the ini and resource files to extract the names. Don’t know how well it would translate to C#. Alternatively, you could just read the database CreateID generates. Check my site - in particular, CreateID (generates the database), WhatIs (searches the database) and JFLT (library that handles the scanning and database). Or even just share the source and let me write it…