EliteBGS

This tool is meant to help people contributing to the BGS effort to create BGS reports. The tool allows you to configure BGS objectives, and will then parse your player journal for tasks you completed relating to that BGS objective. Once the JSON player journal has been parsed, you may then generate a BGS report you can copy/paste into Discord.

Source code is available here.

Binary downloads can be found here: https://bgs.n0la.org/.

How To

Use the main tab to add objectives to the program. To do this, insert the system name, faction, and, optionally, a station. Then press "Add Objective". Objectives can be deleted by selecting them and pressing the "DEL" key. Manually added objectives like this are enabled by default. You can always enable, and disable an objective by checking the box next to its name. Disabled objectives are not included in the BGS discord log generation.

Once you have your objectives have been configured, you can press "Parse Journal", which will check your Elite Dangerous player journal for completed missions. Currently the tool recognises the following completed tasks:

• Completed missions
• Failed missions
• Vouchers, including bounty vouchers, combat bonds, and settlement vouchers (aka intel packages)
• Selling of micro resources (Odyssey only)
• Selling cartography data
• Selling of cargo to stations

Selling cargo attempts to discern the profit and/or loss, which is helpful to gauge BGS impact. But the player journal does not tell the amount of profit in the sell message. So the tool looks for a buy a message related to the same commodity, and calculates loss and/or profit from that. If the buy of the commodity is not within the time and date range, or some other shenanigans happen that the tool does not yet support the profit/loss could be wrong. You can use the "Adjust Trade Profit" button to manually adjust the trade profit, or you could simply edit the discord log manually.

Please note that cartography data, and micro resources only help the controlling faction of a station. The tool is clever enough to exclude these if the station you turn them in at, is not controlled by the faction you specified in the objective.

Some missions may show up having zero influence for the given faction. This happens if you do missions for a faction which is currently in an election state. You do not gain influence for the faction so the influence reads as zero. But contribute towards the election, so the missions are selected anyway.

There is no entry in the journal if you win a combat zone. So you have to add those manually. Select an objective for which you wish to log a combat zone. The faction in the objective, must be the faction you fought for in the combat zone. Then click "Add Combat Zone Win". Select type, either "On Foot" for Odyssey, or "Ship" for regular ones. Then select the grade (low, medium or high), and how many you won. Then press "Accept". Select "Cancel" to abort. You can of course remove the combat zone entries by selecting them, and pressing "DEL".

If you deliberately fail a mission (to log negative INF towards a faction), the tool cannot detect it, if the day you accepted the mission is outside of the given date range. It needs the journal entry where you accept the mission to connect the mission to a faction, system and station. The tool will warn you if this happens, with a message in the error log in the fourth tab.

The window will then list all the journal entries it has found, and group them by objectives. You can remove individual entries (if you think the tool detected something you thought was wrong), by selecting the entry, and pressing the "DEL" key.

Once you are satisfied with the result, move to "Discord Report" tab, select a template, and click "Generate Report".

Before you copy/paste it into the discord of your squadron, you should check the log. You can of course edit it, if something is wrong or the tool itself missed something.

Known Issues and Bugs

Settlement vouchers (aka Intel Packages) help every faction aligned with the given superpower. So if you turn in an Imperial intel package on an imperial station, all factions aligned with the Empire will gain a bit of INF boost. The tool currently cannot handle that. All intel packages are displayed instead.

Sometimes bounty vouchers are not properly recognised. This is a bug in the player journal, where the faction information is not properly written out in the journal:

{ 
  "timestamp":"2021-10-07T14:57:50Z", "event":"RedeemVoucher", 
  "Type":"bounty", "Amount":20750, 
  "Factions":[ { "Faction":"", "Amount":500 }, { "Faction":"", "Amount":20250 }]
}

Since the tool does not know for which faction these bounties were redeemed for, it cannot assign it to an objective.

The player journal currently does not make an entry when you win or lose a combat zone. This is a an ommission from FDev:

• https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/43509

Please upvote the issue to get it fixed. Until then, you have to add combat zone wins manually.

Also missions accepted from NPCs in Odyssey concourses do not get a player journal entry. This is also an ommission from FDev:

• https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/43586

Until this is fixed, please edit the resulting BGS log text, and manually add such entries.

The tool also currently cannot differentiate between missions you have abandoned in the transaction tab before it was completed, and those that you have failed - either delibaretly or by time-out. So it will find and add them all, and you simply can remove those that you have abandoned manually.

Use EDDB information

EliteBGS can download information from EDDB to auto complete system and station names. You can enable its use in the "Settings". Once enabled, you must also press "Download", to download and process the current version of the EDDB database.

Please note that the database is rather large (>200 MB), and processing it takes some time. It is best if you don't use this feature if you are on a slow or metered internet connection.

Nothing's Perfect

The tool itself is still a work in progress, and it might miss something. If you think the tool missed a task you have done, please contact Hekateh on the Elite Dangerous community discord. It would be helpful if you included the JSON player journal. This player journal can be found here:

%userprofile%\saved Games\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\

Build Dependencies

Handling of Elite Dangerous player journals have been moved to a separate project called EDJournal. Its source can be found here. This project simply depends on the binary DLL that EDJournal builds.

The project also requires Ookii.Dialogs.WPF controls, which contains the auto complete text box.

And of course, Newtonsoft.Json as the JSON parser.

About

This tool was made by CMDR Hekateh (Discord: nola#2457).

Long live the Empire.