Feature Request: Generate or indicate items in your possession that are unnecessary for a given wishlist

[RearAdmiralPants]

I have an issue that I hear is quite common - my backpack is full to bursting with the "Assets" (as you categorize them), but after watching several tutorial videos, the only way I am aware of determining which of those assets are/will be necessary to procure the items in my wishlist is to:

• Click the Wishlist tab;
• Scroll down to "Required Materials"
• Perform a subtraction operation for anything in green ($Available - $Required = $Unnecessary). You'd think this step would be the most tedious/difficult, but...
• Now I have to determine the most efficient use of each material where ($Unnecessary > 0) in terms of bartender trading given those materials in red for which $Required < $Available that are available for bartender trade. I wouldn't expect this app developer to solve this problem in an MVP release. This is an advanced feature (though I'd be happy to contribute! I love Java, but most of the past two decades I've spent in IT, my employers have had me in .NET, Angular, React, and more recently, Rust and Golang. I don't know how many volunteers you have, and I don't want to be too many cooks in the kitchen, just offering - I think you can PM me on here if you're interested and we can discuss details)
• This process, repeated for all odyssey items, is incredibly tedious and lengthy.

Export seemed to be a partial answer for me - I could parse that file and write a little companion app of my own. Maybe that's my solution. It just seems that the export file is really sparse compared to what I see on the screen in the app - are all of the categories and material needs exported (e.g. engineer unlocks, suit/weapon upgrades, suit/weapon modules) across all material types (Assets, Goods, Data)? I confess I haven't explored export-specific settings at all, so that could be on me.

Regardless, THANK YOU for comprehensively filling an absolutely essential need for Odyssey players who want to engineer their gear without spending a day or two in front of Inara on one monitor and a spreadsheet on another. You've done a fantastic job.

[RearAdmiralPants]

Ok, upon further analysis I do see goods as well as all three categories of assets in my export file, so perhaps that is how I shall proceed - write a tiny console app that parses in an export file and spits out what I can sell, and the most optimal way to trade what's tradeable (if any).

Do let me know if you are interested in any additional contribution. I have 3 decades in IT as of this past summer. and I just ended a mental sabbatical today, so I'm currently unemployed and bored. I'm playing around with two projects - one just to familiarize me with GitHub and GitLab's CI/CD loop tools as well as containerization in Docker/k8s and how it relates to said CI/CD tools - it's basically a multithreaded file comparison tool (think rsync without the copying).

The other is actually Elite related - I'm trying to see if, using EDDB's "API" (nightly data dumps), Inara's API, CAPI (if Frontier EVER gives me access), and EDSM's API, whether I can predict anything useful about the next day regarding specific commodities, e.g. Platinum - like likely best stations to sell, that sort of thing. Just to see if it's possible. It's a crazy data mining exercise with a tremendous amount of variables, so it'd be a neat addition to my portfolio if it ever bears fruit.

But I'm still bored!

[jixxed]

We can discuss things on the discord: https://discord.gg/M8Rgz4AmmA

Generally though I wouldn't recommend selling blueprint materials, only the irrelevant ones. goods are hard to fill up, assets can be traded into their most valuable ones and data should be easy to see with the overlay.

[RearAdmiralPants]

Well thus my issue - I wanted to determine the optimal things for which to trade for them; when my backpack is 987/1000 full of assets, I'm functionally unable to collect anymore during any on foot mission. I need to reduce that number somehow, and if I already have the assets for all the upgrades/mods I want for all the loadouts I plan to use, the only recourse is to sell them unless I'm missing a fundamental part of the game where I can somehow store these non-commodity items on my ship or carrier or empty my backpack while holding on to them in some fashion.

I'll check out the discord after I get some sleep, I pulled an all-nighter wrestling with .NET 7's Microsoft.Configuration and Microsoft.Extensions to inject dependencies containing members whose values were read using said Configuration namespace from JSON files at runtime, but with the injection occurring after the initial startup / initialization code. I probably could have rolled my own Configuration provider in far less time than the time it took but I'm tired of the looks I get from other devs when I do that, plus I learned how to properly do delayed dependency injection now. Yay?

[jixxed]

this new filter and indicator may also help you with your issues

[RearAdmiralPants]

It's closer, but if the material isn't required by anything in your wishlist, it does not appear in the resulting interface, whereas I would like an indicator that my Visoelectric whatsit serves no purpose for me in terms of engineering and can safely be traded or, worst case, sold.

[jixxed]

new filter released in 1.92. check it out and let me know if this works for you