Whats some good ways to find port data ??

Such as, I want to know the closest port to sector X that sells Ore


mombot?
separate scripts?
built into twx?

mombot has this:

FIND - Search TWX-DBase for Fighter/Port data

find [f/nf/fp/p/de/ufde] [type] {sector} [port type]

- [type] - [de]ad-end or
[f]igged or
[nf] no-fig or
[fp] figged port or
[p]ort or
[ufde] un-figged dead end
- {sector} sector number that you need finder data on,
default is current sector
- [port type] port type (s)ell , (b)uy, or (x) either


but.. can I really find a specific type of port? like a SBB or even a Sxx

seems from directions it says I can find a (s)ell port... but.. selling what?

SWATH http://swath.net might be what you're looking for

its under Tools, Port Finder
the screen looks like this:



If you're in the sector you want to find closest port to, you can select "max distance" and however many sectors out you want.

If I am remembering right the command is something like:

>find f bbb
to find a figged port that is buying all types and:
>find nf sxx
to find a non figged that is selling fuel and you don't care about the rest.

I think also that the "find" part of that command MIGHT be optional, but it's been a while.

MD

I don't think the specific port finder is working MD. I've used all of those formats and still says it can't find the data or something to that extent.

I experienced the same as Big D.

also, just the >F (sector #) command finds a the nearest fighter to the sector (you enter)


something a little wrong with the find command and ports...

or I could be just a little stupid with the find command

Oops, I meant:

>find fp bbb

or

>find p sxx

Still untested, but I definitely had the wrong parameters, like Big D said >f finds the nearest fig, and nf finds the nearest non-figged sector.

So give that a try..

Edit:

Just looked at the source quick and found these are the find commands (and yes they can be used with or without "find" in front of them):

f - figged sector
nf - non-figged sector
fp - figged port
port - any port
de - any dead end
uf - unfigged sector (same as nf I think)
fde - figged dead end
nfup - non-figged upped port (port with more than 10k product without fig)
fup - figged upped port (same thing but with fig)

So appears that the documentation was behind the implementation when I put these in. I am not thrilled that the upped port commands have a hardcoded minimum, but that can be fixed easily enough..

MD

ty MD

after testing a little.. heres what I came up with.

command:

>fp sxx

output:

{muss}
S: - Nearest Figged SXX port(s) to 16528: 4749 (1 hops), 8653 (2 hops),
S: and 13763 (3 hops)
S:
S: Note: 16528LA, has a SXX port that's figged.


......But.....


command:

>find fp sxx [gives a different output]

output:

{muss}
S: - Nearest Figged XXX port(s) to 16528: 4749 (1 hops), 14123 (1
S: hops), and 8653 (2 hops)
S:
S: Note: 16528LA, has a XXX port that's figged.




Both commands taken from same sector.

Seems that using the "find" command in front of "fp sxx" returns a general/default 'xxx' port listing..
and
not using find will return more of exactly what I was looking for to begin with.

either way...

I learned how to use it better