About X2: Sector Planner by LordSuch
Sector planner can even give you a break down of supply and demand for a sector within a specified number of jumps or across the whole X Universe, making it much easier to find great locations for your factories (and loops). It also provides information, such as a profit calculator and stores your station's prices to give you an idea of your hourly profitability.
It can now even import data from Logaan's company value script thereby saving you the time of entering all your station details manually.
Sector Planner DOES NOT remove the THINK portion of factory placement! The model it uses is based upon all factories operating at 100% efficiency, which the AI very rarely does. However the combination of Sector Planner and some thought can prove to be a potent weapon in your campaign for Universe wide domination.
I originally decided to write Sector Planner as a small tool for my own use however it soon developed into much
more than the simple tool I had envisioned as a consequence I decided to make it available for others to use.
The first closed beta release of Sector Planner was in March 2004, with the first public release about a month later.
Since then Sector Planner has been through 4 versions with a number of bug fixes and tweaks in between.
For further discussion about Sector Planner, see the thread on Egosoft's forums at http://www.egosoft.com/x2/forum/viewtopic.php?t=44238
Cheers
LordSuch