Inara updates, bug reports, requests

Commanders having Elite from Epic games store with http 400 error
When you try to link your accounts, you may receive the http error 400 about expired tokens. It's an issue on Frontier's end that I cannot solve on Inara. Fortunately, the solution is simple - please give it a few days and it will start to work later (probably when the access token on their cAPI server expires). If the error 400 appeared later and it worked before, try to reauthenticate as said in the error message (may be just a regular reauth forced by Frontier). Alternatively, you can try to use the workaround below. If even that won't work, it's the problem described above.
Please vote for the issue on the official bug tracker: https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/21258

Possible workaround: Try to connect the account while you are in the game. It may work.

Game data and imports not available for console commanders and PC players with Legacy game version
Inara supports only the Live game version (so PC Horizons 4.0 and Odyssey) since game update 14, thus all the game data on the site and the commander data imports work only for those game versions.
07 Jun 2020, 5:23pm
Mug Fujiwara
Having a tooltip that reads something like "here you can find things related with Z, such as sections A, B, C, ..." It would solve issue of searching for options for a longer time if someone doesn't use them pretty often.

I had to ask someone on Discord where you block people, since option was nowhere in the section connected with Friends and Contacts.

I see, thanks for the clarification.

Aunty Sledge
When doing BGS stuff you often need data about a faction that isn't in the system, mostly when considering retreats and expansions.

Having reviewed how I do things, I think I can work with what we have so far. I just need to favourite the important factions in the area. When I want to look at one I just click any random faction in the system and then I can see Favourite Factions. It's a two-click step, but better than my current use of bookmarking faction home systems as I need to remember a lot of faction home systems.

Having the faction favourites on the page would be a single-click solution but I appreciate not everyone wants/needs favourite factions on the systems page.

Another idea which might help with clicks is to add "Commander - My Current Location" in th shortcuts menu.

Aha, I understand. I will try one change with favorites listing there and let's see how it will work.

Silver TafferArtie, any possibility that you could add a third option (squadron only) to the 'share my location' in settings? As it stands it is either 'yes' or 'no', but it would be a help in some Squadron situations to be able to locate members.

Yep, possibly in the future. I would like to take a general pass over all those privacy settings to allow also more options.

DragoCubX
You can see it as the megaship not belonging to any faction (but perhaps by some non-political organization), thus falling under the jurisdiction of the local controlling faction as it controls the space surrounding the place the megaship jumped to.
On the contrary, it would be even stranger to have them keep an allegiance, since that would put faction assets in systems the faction isn't even active in. Looks like a BGS limitation to me.

It seems like a game/BgS simulation indeed. But, still weird...
08 Jun 2020, 10:16pm
Fleet carriers are coming to the game this week! As Frontier added nice support into the journals/cAPI for the new features as well, there is an update to support fleet carriers on Inara.
  • Fleet carriers are now being supported across the Inara, which includes market listings, outfitting, nearest service searches and so on. At this moment, the market/outfitting data are being updated via EDDN as any other regular station, however, there are some improvements coming targeted especially to console commanders. The fleet carriers should be also properly moved between the star systems and so on, but of course - it's crowd-sourced data, so it may take a moment to have all the data properly populated.
  • Fleet carrier owners can view their fleet carrier(s) details in their CMDR profile. Please keep in mind that to have the carrier properly added/assigned to you, you must use the Import Frontier data feature, once the carrier is bought. To ensure the owners of fleet carriers are correct, there is no other way. I have a plan to provide a little bit more outputs there and also to add support for squadron-dedicated fleet carriers, but I would like to see some live data first. It will be coming in the following days.
  • The partially overhauled list of conflict zones is back if you are searching for the nearest wars.
  • Various minor improvements across the site.
And now just... tame the beast! buy the carrier!
08 Jun 2020, 10:21pm
You da man Artie!

Still need Bon Vivant as a role
08 Jun 2020, 10:29pm
You're a prince, Artie!
08 Jun 2020, 10:41pm
Good show Artie
08 Jun 2020, 11:51pm
Still keeping Inara on the cutting edge, Artie many thanks 07
09 Jun 2020, 6:36am
As always, doing an exceptional job.

We are all very lucky to have you and Inara.

O7 Artie.
09 Jun 2020, 7:23am
Loving the changes Artie, My Favourites is really useful.
09 Jun 2020, 11:22am
I am suprised that nobody suggested that, but... what about a small notication in the upper panel that is feed on Elite Dangerous' server status? It could be derived from official forums.
09 Jun 2020, 1:12pm
Mug FujiwaraI am suprised that nobody suggested that, but... what about a small notication in the upper panel that is feed on Elite Dangerous' server status? It could be derived from official forums.


Oh yeah, I like this. Maybe just a small colorized icon in the upper left header, near the Game Time and "Friends on Inara" icons - just for an "at a glance" game server status regardless of the Inara page you're on?
09 Jun 2020, 1:34pm
Nobody asked for this before, it's not happening often anyway.
But yeah, I may add something, but not a priority.
09 Jun 2020, 1:42pm
Thank you Artie for the work input and the quick updates! Very interested in seeing what you've planned for squadron-dedicated fleet carriers

Are you taking feedback on what I'd like to see for that?

If yes, I'd love to:
  • Set and show to users that my carrier is aligned with my squadron.
  • Create a "flight plan" of some sorts for people (potentially only squadron members) to view.
  • Have an option on squadron missions to show the carrier will be present to support the activities of that mission.
  • Possibly a shortcut to the squadron carrier somewhere from the squadron overview?
  • Possibly a way to unofficially add the carrier to a squadrons' player minor faction/set it as an allegiance. I know it wouldn't directly reflect the BGS of the game, but I'd love to do on here what the game doesn't allow me to do!
09 Jun 2020, 6:04pm
Yes, any feedback is always welcome, thank you for the ideas! What I have on my mind for now:
- FC will be possible to set as a squadron asset, such FCs will be listed on the squadron's fleet page
- there will be possible to set various privacy/visibility levels for FCs details, from "none" (as is now) up to "all". So, you will be able to set FC as a squadron asset and limit the details visibility for squadron members only, for example
- I would like to provide some chart of finances, jump history and also Tritium donations history

I think that I can make some exception for carriers, so there will be possible to set the minor faction without the risk of it being overridden during auto-updates. Good call with the squadron being displayed, when assigned, I will add that to the list. No plans for the "flight plans" or missions settings at the moment, but it's something any squadron can handle easily in the text form anywhere.
09 Jun 2020, 7:23pm
Under Galaxy > Systems and Stations, could you add column sorting to the Megaships and Fleet Carriers tabs to match the Damaged Stations and Conflict Zones? And maybe set alphabetical default sort on Fleet Carriers.
09 Jun 2020, 7:49pm
New rare commodity type in Kuma system, at Elion Dock: "Nanomedicines". Price 2782/ton. (Supply 40.)

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