Options panel

The OPTIONS panel show many changeable settings to customize this extension.

## General

* **Text UI:** Select this option to have a text-base user interface.
* **Icon UI:** Select this option to have an icon-based interface.
* **Remove UI buttons on focus loss:** Select this option to hide all main buttons from the UI to get a better view of the game. As soon you press the keybind to focus TCE or moving your mouse above the center displays at the center, the buttons will reappear.
* **Manual Focus:** Select this option and TCE is no longer responsive through the mouse controller (useful, if you are flying with your mouse). But you have to select a key for the **Focus Interface** keybind to activate this option. Press the selected key to normally use the interface with your mouse controller.
* **Show Clock:** Select this option to show the current clock and date at the UI above the center displays.
* **Local:** Select this option to show your local time.
* **UTC:** Select this option to show UTC based time.
* **12H:** Select this option to show am/pm time.
* **24H:** Select this option to show 24 hour time.
* **Always visible:** Select the option to show always the time and date at the UI. Otherwise it will hide, if you have selected the **Remove UI buttons on focus loss** option.
* **Display Tooltips:** Select this option to get a tooltip here and there for a better understanding of the function.
* **Export visited star systems to Elite Dangerous on exit:** Select this option to tell Elite Dangerous, where you have been in the game. This function of Elite Dangerous was added after release.
* **Bypass Launcher on start:** Select this option to launch directly TCE, without loading the launcher before.
* **Auto Connect when docked:** Select this option to let TCE automatically connect via EDMC to the Frontier server and receive valuable data of the station and it's market. Otherwise use the **CONNECT** button at the center of the UI.
* **Auto hide UI on interdictions:** Select this option and TCE will hide it's interface automatically, if you got interdicted within a star system. The interface will reappear as soon as you return to supercruise, jumping into a different star system or by pressing the key to Show/Hide Interface.
* **Daily local backup:** Select this option and TCE will make a backup of it's databases once a day before launching. The files are stored into the **BACKUP** folder of TCE.

## Sound

* **Sound effects:** Select the option to get an audio feedback of your doings from TCE. Change the volume with the slider, if required.
* **Text-To-Speech:** Select this option and TCE reading loud the incoming messages from the event reporter of TCE.

## Color

* **Primary color:** Select the primary HUD color of the interface. You can select from a color palette or you can enter RGB values directly. This color affects borders, highlights, selections and all text. The reset button returns the color to default.
* **Secondary color:** Select the secondary HUD color of the interface. You can select from a color palette or you can enter RGB values directly. This color affects backgrounds or unselected stuff. The reset button returns the color to default.
* **Coloring state at Navigation panel:** Select this option and all star system displayed at the Navigation panel are colored between states of visited, scanned or explored. The state of a star system can be changed at the Navigation panel.
* **Visited color:** Select a color to represent the visited state of a star system at the Navigation panel.
* **Scanned color:** Select a color to represent the scanned state of a star system at the Navigation panel.
* **Explored color:** Select a color to represent the explored state of a star system at the Navigation panel.

**Note:** Depending on the selected color, a restart of TCE could be necessary.

## Online

* **Send commodity data to EDDN:** Select this option to send your discovered commodity data of a market to EDDN, which is a service to receive updated prices of player found commodities at market around the galaxy.

## EDDB-Relay Web Service

The EDDB-Relay Web Service is a method to communicate with EDDB, a platform for crowdsourced commodity data. You can create or update your Trade Station database and set the parameters of how much you want to know about the trade stations around your current position.

By starting the service, TCE fill up your database with crowdsourced data from EDDB, which contains newest trade station informations, commodity prices, available outfittings and ships to buy. In addition, the service updating all star system informations in database and any informations about the minor factions of the game.

All changeable parameters are locked, until the service is stopped.

Here you can choose, what parameters you want to give the service on it's way.

* **EDDB-Relay Service:** You can switch the service on or off. Select ON to get access to all parameters of the service. If you want to switch it off, you have to stop the service before, if it was active.
* **Database Update:** Here you can select, if an update is performed manually or automatically by TCE. With the manual option, you have to start the service manually and after updating the databases, the service become inactive until you start it again. The automatic option allows TCE to perform updates on-the-fly. This meaning, that if you have left the initial created sphere of informations about trade stations in your vicinity, TCE updates your database continuously while moving to new star system. This is done, if the selected Trade Range sphere (see below) is no longer entirely covered by the information sphere. You will reveive a message from the Event Reporter, if you have left the information sphere and if an update is initiated.
* **Include Trade Stations:** Here you can choose, if your database stays private (only visited), so TCE updates only your trade stations in database or you want to gain access of the crowdsourced data of the community (all in range) and let TCE add all available informations to your database.
* **Planetary Points of Interest:** Planetary locations found and recorded by players can be added to your database. This includes also materials or commodities, which can be found.
	+ None: No locations will be added to your database.
	+ With Coordinates Only: Location with proper latitude and longitude coordinates are added, so they can be displayed at the Minimap panel for guided approach.
	+ All: All available planetary location will be added to your database as long as TCE can identify the star system in your database.

* **Cache Buffering:** Cache buffering decreasing the required time performing EDDB-Relay updates in game, but increasing the usage of memory.

* **Dynamic CPU Core Usage:** TCE selecting dynamically the number of "free" cores when performing an EDDB-Relay update. When deactivated, TCE using all available cores when Elite Dangerous is not running and only the half when the game is running.

* **Include Stations Within:** Here you can select, how large the database become. The greater the range, the more informations is stored into your database and the longer it takes for the Relay to perform an update. On the other hand, you will get more opportunities to make a profit, the larger the range is. You should be decide wisely, how long you want to fly for a profit against the required performance to have all data at the same time. *I suggest the following formular: Your current jump range of your ship multiplied by 2-3 should be your TradeRange and your Trade Range multiplied by two should be your information range.* It is also displayed, what's the name of center star system of the sphere. This is the star system, were you are currently in the game.
* **Trade Range:** Here you can choose the Trade Range, where TCE is looking for opportunities and profits for you. Because TCE has no limitations in case of processing data, it's the limiter in case of performance problems. Check the formular above for a reasonable range selection.
* **Manual Edit Of Range Values:** You can change both ranges manually, without using the default values. Enter the range into the text field and apply thereafter the value.

The status indicator showing you, what happens actually at the service.

## System

* **Multi-Monitor setup:** Select this option to let TCE know, you are using a multi-monitor setup. You can select, which monitor the interface got displayed. Remember, the shown resolution are desktop resolutions, not from the game.
* **Benchmark:** Here you can benchmark your comuter system, how it performs on query databases at RAM and HDD. The overall rating showing, what your performance is. Reduce the Trade Range, if you should have a low performance, so TCE can handle the data and not going black!
* **Logs:** TCE can create logs for different processes. It's recommended to activate them, if you encounter any trouble. They will be incl. into the ErrorReportFiles archive, created when pressing the 'Report A Bug' button.

## Panel Configuration

* **Activate Star System Summary panel:** Select this option to add the Star System Summary panel to the interface. A separate button is displayed at your screen border. More info's about the panel is found in this wiki.
* **Show on star system change:** Select this option and shortly after you entered a star system, the Summary panel is automatically shown to give you some informations about the current star system.
* **Remove button from interface:** Select this option to remove the displayed button for the Summary panel. You can it thereafter on access the selected keybind for the Summary panel.
* **Sort by:** Here you can change the list of locations within your current star system and sort it by distance, position (relative to your current position), visited (already visited location are on the top of the list), visits (how many times you visited the location) and unregistered (unknown locations to TCE are shown at the top).
* **Show new design:** The new design changing the borders you get the displayed button and shows the informations more graphically.
* **Remove planetary spots:** Select this option and the list of location is missing all planetary locations (recommended, if you not have all DLCs of Elite Dangerous, e.g. you can't land on a planet).
* **Activate Waypoint panel:** Select this option to add the Waypoint panel to the interface. A separate button is displayed at your screen border. More info's about the panel is found in this wiki.
* **Remove button from interface:** Select this option to remove the displayed button for the Waypoint panel. You can it thereafter on access the selected keybind for the Waypoint panel.
* **Activate Cargo panel:** Select this option to add the Cargo panel to the interface. A separate button is displayed at your screen border. More info's about the panel is found in this wiki.
* **Remove button from interface:** Select this option to remove the displayed button for the Cargo panel. You can it thereafter on access the selected keybind for the Cargo panel.
* **Show Minimap panel at planets:** Select this option and a small Minimap panel is displayed when entering planetary space. More info's about the panel is found in this wiki.
* **Show Camera panel after scan:** Select this option and the Camera panel is automatically displayed, if you have completed a planetary scan. More info's about the panel is found in this wiki.
* **Show Scan Protocol while scanning:** Select this option to automatically display the Scan Protocol panel, displaying informations about your scan. More info's about the panel is found in this wiki.
* **Panel Position:** Here you can select a panel, you want to move at the interface by entering a X/Y value. Useful, if you can't longer reach a panel with your mouse controller. Enter the values and hit the ENTER key and the panel will move.
* **Allow display of multiple panels simultaneously:** Select this option and you can open multiple panel at the same time. Useful, if you have a big or multiple monitors.
* **Allow free panel placement:** Select this option and the positions of panels are no longer bound on your desktop resolution. Useful to move panels to other monitors, which are not the select monitor, where TCE is located.
* **Deactivate panel animation:** Select the option to remove the included panel animation (Waypoint, Summary and Cargo panel).

## Auto Destination

* **Auto-Select Best Profit Destination:** Select this option to activate the TCE guidance to your next profit in the galaxy. TCE checks all available commodity data (of the selected Trade Range) and locating the best spot of profit, depending on your position and docked station.
* **Market minimum pad size:** Here you can select automatic (TCE checks your current ship size and find only location, you can land), large (only station with large pad sizes) and all.
* **Market distance from star:** Here you can set the maximum distance in light seconds from the main star of a system, where TCE checks the markets for profit. Enter 0 (zero) for unlimited.
* **Market location:** Here you can select which station type to include into the search of profit (all, space or planetary)
* **Market minimum stock:** Here you can set the minimum stock of commodities available at a market. Enter 0 (zero) for unlimited.
* **Market minimum profit/unit:** Here you can set the minimum profit/unit required for a market, which TCE selecting as a destination.
* **Market minimum discount/unit:** Here you can set the minimum discount/unit required for a market, which TCE selecting as a destination.
* **Market economy:** Here you can select the market economy type, you take into account in finding profits. Click the Show buttton to open a list of all types and remove the checkmark to exclude this type of economy.
* **Star system security:** Here you can select the security level of a star system, which is included into the search of markets. Click the type you want to include. No selection means no filtering.
* **Market allegiance:** Here you can select the allegiance type of a market, which is included into the search of markets. Click the type you want to include. No selection mean no filtering.
* **Market faction:** Here you can select one or more factions, you want to exclusively trade with. Only tracked factions are shown at the selection list. You can track factions by selecting them at the Factions panel.
* **Auto-select Mission Destination:** Select this option to activate the mission guidance, if your selected mission requires travelling to a certain location.
* **Auto-select Exploration Destination:** Select this option to activate the exploration guidance, so it displays the next location you have to travel to complete the exploration.

## Event Reporter

* **Activate:** Select this option to activate the Event Reporter. It will inform you about an ongoing event with a small note bar at the interface.
* **Delay until messge removal:** Here you can select the time you have to read the event note until the message is removed.
* **Messages:** Here you can select the type of event message you like to be informed.

## Keyboard

Here you can select a key to a keybind you like to use while using TCE. There are six categories with multiple choices of actions. Some options above require a selection of a key to be accessable or usable.

Select an action by clicking the selected key or unassigned note to open a list of possible key selections and click the type you want.

## Wiki

This button brings you directly to this wiki.

## Donate

If you like TCE and want to support my work you can send some bucks here.

## Report a bug

Click this button if you have find a bug or other sort of problem. A report is created at the root folder of TCE, which is displayed after completing the report (this can take a short while). The file is named "ErrorReportFiles\_Vx.x.x.x.7z and you can now send me the report by mail to eventure\_at\_kabelmail.de. I will report back as soon as i have time to.

Thanks for your help!