Increasing the mining drone count to 20 eventually caused the price of all ore in the system to bottom out and I had to stop the automation as it was slowly losing credits. I’ll need to improve how I monitor the market across waypoints so I’ve added a bunch of code to do this.

price of ore drops to one

Ultimately i’ll use probes to periodically check each waypoint, but I need to write the probe automation to do this. I’ll have to purchase probes over time and slowly send them out across the system, starting with the waypoints closest to the ENGINEERED_ASTEROID. A quick route to euclidian distance in Postgres is to use the cube extension:

sql
with originCTE as ( select cube(array[x,y]) as position from waypoint where reset_date ='2024-03-24' and type = 'ENGINEERED_ASTEROID' ), distanceCTE as ( select waypoint.*, cube(array[waypoint.x, waypoint.y]) <-> originCTE.position as distance from waypoint join originCTE on 1=1 where reset_date ='2024-03-24' ) select * from distanceCTE where 'SHIPYARD' = any(traits) or 'MARKETPLACE' = any(traits) order by distance;