Butt

[bregma]

@Nightstar

Yay nobody will have to put stuff in the BUTT any more!

Please try to not judge how others play the game. If it’s not forbidden by the Code of Conduct it’s allowed.

[molav]

but really guys, what is BUTT?

[Vansten]

https://butt.boundless.mayumi.fi/
B.U.T.T stands for Boundless Universal Trade Tracker; A website that lists the cheapest place to buy everything - people can download the program and scan planet data that gets uploaded to the website

[molav]

Thanks for explaining

[JDGroat]

It would be cool if there was a way to have a list of every item and the average price it is going for. So people had a rough idea why stuff goes for.

[Nightstar]

There’s already price competition per item on some items that shows people are competing with what they see and not paying any attention to what goes into the item.

[Minyi]

I’m a dev and I didn’t know what BUTT was so I was confused through this whole thread until someone finally explained.

[fidach]

@Mayumichi has kindly put their BUTT up for public use…

[Mayumichi]

If you have a good way of defining the “average price” it’d be easier, as it stands I don’t have a working algorithm that would produce sensible prices for all items, it’d have to somehow filter out the outliers.

Take reactive lamella for example

[JDGroat]

No I get cha. I love the B.U.T.T. I ment for like new players setting shops up, sometimes you see crazy prices lol that will never sell.

[majorvex]

@Mayumichi

working algorithm that would produce sensible prices for all items

I’ve seen other games arrive at the “average” price by removing the lowest & highest priced items. For Boundless, maybe remove the top 20% and bottom 20%?

Of course, this won’t help if there are only a few of a particular item for sale across the universe.

Keep up the great work!

[molav]

How do I update my prices on there?

[Mayumichi]

Main thread here with more details on how it works atm, it won’t require 3rd party PC software after the shopping API goes live.

Boundless Universal Trade Tracker [BUTT] 2.0

https://butt.boundless.mayumi.fi/ Version 2.0 is now out with API integration! Automatic price updates about once an hour. There’s also a plethora of new features and QoL fixes to the website. To name a few Item icons More responsive design for small and large screens New sidebar with a full item catalog and favorites for easier & faster navigation (still a bit WIP, especially the favorite management) As always if you see something that looks odd, let me know [image]

[JDGroat]

@Mayumichi you did amazing job on all this.

[molav]

When does the api go live?

[Mayumichi]

Thanks! ^^

@molav Only the devs know, whenever the next update goes live, could be a while as the beacon compactness seems to have met some… resistance

[Kurokaze]

Hi,
I was able to use the web site to search for an item and got a list of shops of any planets where the shop offers those items. But as I have not heart of most of the shops, I do not know where they are! Am I dumb that I can not ask for the coords and/or a path to each shop ?

[AeneaGames]

Go to the planet, then go to Knowledge screen, search for the item there, click the Buy From tab.
Should have the same shops listed. Then when you click one of the shops a direction marker appears…

[Kurokaze]

Oh yes, how could I forget this, thank you for the reminder!
I maybe was assuming that the gathering process would extract coords of the shops and they could be displayed … But this is OK also

[Mayumichi]

I could make the coordinates available in the future, but I think they wouldn’t be that useful since it’s better to look it up on the knowledge to make sure the order is still available. The data on the website can be out of date pretty quickly, especially the top orders.