Slamdance Kozmopolis wrote:
Have you tried E: D Market Connector/habzone?
If so, how do they compare?
I really love the simplicity of habzone and it does just what I need in it's little corner. I have it running in a transparent overlay in the upper right of my screen. I just jump in, scan the star, and habzone gives me a readout of all the important orbital zones...
Elite Dangerous Discovery looks interesting and cool, but it also looks like it might be really complicated and involve a lot of alt-tabbing to use.
Am I wrong?
No, I have not tried that, I have actually never heard of that before. I have no idea what it is.
I am happy with ED Discovery and the only time when I ALT+TAB is when I need to re-check some data, such as the habitable zone of the stars if I forget the numbers for some reason. I would say as soon as you set the options to your likings, which takes just a moment of your time, you need not to worry about ED Discovery much. It works in the background and tells you the important things (you choose what is to be said).
I sometimes do spend some time in ED Discovery, reading past logs or filtering event to see some things, but I usually do that only after I finish my session.
Oh, and it can automatically make smaller copies of your screenshots and store them in a directory of your choosing. I have a directory with a sub-directors for each day, with each screenshot being just a couple hundred kilobytes JPEG files. The original much larger versions (approx. 5 MB BMP files) are kept in the default directory, but I have smaller versions to share via Discord or Imgur or whatever and sorted for easier search by dates.