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Destucs

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In my recent game, I was looking for planets where I could buy weapons, mech parts and other components.
I found out on steam forums that each planet had attributes and those attributes defined which one of them had increased probability of selling good inventory.

Among
- Industrial
- Mining
- Battlefield
- Rich
- Comstar
- Star League
- Black Market
- City Hub


Not sure if I forgot any.
I was looking for an easy way to pinpoint planets which hold those attributes, but nothing in the game allowed me to do so.
In order to find them out, I checked planets one by one. One. By. One.

Took me a lot of time and didn't really feel interesting, nor did I feel any feeling of accomplishment afterward, simply felt like busy work.
My findings for those who are interested:
Helping tool for read:
Check out north-east of available map.
At the frontier with Federated Suns.
By there, you should be able to find 2 planets very proficient at selling stuff.
One is at the eastern front and the other is on the left from that one, it's close to the frontier with directorate (ill possibly come back to this thread with a screenshot).


I don't in which form the UI could help locate those planets.
At first I was thinking about seeking planets attributes, but I am unsure now,
Because the only practical reason to seek a planet seem to be for its store capacities.
Which makes me think that the only practical thing to do, would be a simple rating of shop capacities for planets, easily accessible for players who seek such planets/stores.
 
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Col. Klink

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I like browsing the map a lot, reading up on planets and figuring out where to go next not just for shopping but also fluff reasons. My next stop will be Fjaldr to pay tribute to Mastiff, for instance.

However I think the map needs a filter where you can:
- search for a planet by name
- filter by important attributes (have check-able boxes for each)
- filter by difficulty rating