*Al* wrote:Lanceor wrote:*Al* wrote:Sorry Deal, could you please explain wtf that means
It appears that Deal is our newest funny guy (or gal) with a strange sense of humour. If one of his posts isn't making sense, then it's probably best not to look for any hidden meaning in it.
Was looking for any meaning....
Just shooting the breeze, *Al*. I'm only really interested in having fun playing the game - usually by learning things - and if possible, helping people along the way.
I'm unlikely to spend much time on anything else.
Back to Kamuy, I've done a few more runs although I didn't check the 25 minute sticky board run because I was annoyed.
fill 9m trip 1:07 p:218 pph:196 (I was interdicted near lie silo and ended up
inside the planet. This slowed me down a bit)
fill 17m trip 1:10 p:224 pph:192
fill 6m trip 0:56 p:220 pph:236
My last trip yesterday had an 8m fill but the servers went down and I forgot to note the rest.
The issue with starting at neutral.. I'm less sure about. A lot depends on what effect your trade rank has on boards. If you see more of the notionally inferior but circumstantially preferable economy runs at low trade ranks, then you would expect longer board flips at neutral rep if you are trade elite. Which would then improve as you increase your rep.
That's just idle speculation though.
As I mentioned, I suspect that Kamuy has fewer competing neighbours which might account for the reduced number of flips. I spent some time looking at raorn's ruby script and I'm not seeing the results I would expect, but I'm not quite sure why. I've never seen ruby code before, am not very familiar with sql and therefore doubly so for sequel. I would have expected to see 36 Ophiuchi in the output since it has a large orbital station and neighbours within range with large pads.
raorn, any idea why 36 Ophiuchi isn't matched? I realise that it's not really useful given that maximum mission payout cap, but if it's omitted, perhaps other viable routes are too.
The nested where/exclude/count clauses give me a futtering headache though and up until this point, I'm just too thick to understand it. I did tweak the output formatting to make it easier to read with my tired old eyes though. /flex
If sticky board syndrome is a thing then it seems unlikely to me that it would be particular to any given route and so it's not a factor, except for pruning results accordingly.
Non of this really matters much except in the abstract since which ever route you choose, gargantuan profits are made. It's just interesting to me.
Given my results, my loadout (applicable to any route) and my preference for avoiding boardflipping, I'd say that optimally, Kamuy->Medb is a better route than Allen->Smeaton.
A larger sample size would strengthen my confidence in that conclusion, but that requires more runs from me (stupid rich already) or for others to report back with their results using a comparable loadout and rep. Which potentially entails them getting repped. I think I'll leave it there for now. I will look into raorn's script though. I'd like to add a second pass to determine all competing systems within range of each source system that runs to the destination.
/tiphat