Public Economy Data Dumps - Roadmap

Much like in real life, the in-game economy is something lots of people have opinions on but few people understand.

I'd like to start releasing daily dumps which will allow users (and myself) to get a better picture of how the economy functions. These dumps would consist of two parts:

• A table of ships loaded on that day (identified by hex code and maybe including the name and color) and the contents of their cargo at the end of that day.
• A log of all item boxes picked up on that day, which includes the ship hex code, item, and the source (ship hex, bot type, world tile, etc.)

This would somewhat obsolete the scanner items, but I'm at the point where I think there are more benefits to sharing this data:

• First and foremost, we'll have an idea of how item stocks change over time, and the relative rarity of items.
• This data might allow you to infer drop rates without me needing to make that specific information public.
• It's another tool to help catch bad actors -- I already use similar logs to track where stolen items go, and giving the community this data takes some burden off of me.
• Those of you who liked the old wealth scoreboard can design your own, which will probably work better, without me having to assign arbitrary point values to items.
• Something for programmers in the community to play with, that isn't trying to reverse engineer the game code.