Space Rangers 2: Reboot new search features not functioning correctly

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One of the new features of Space Rangers 2: Reboot is the ability to refine your searches through a set of mixed criteria.  For the option to search for trade Goods, you're allowed to search by quantity, selling and purchasing price as well as distance from your location.

I've determined that the only accurately functioning field on this page is "distance from your location", which is a field that is common among each of the types of things that you can search.

Searching for other items (ship equipment, etc) seems to function appropriately.  Are the fields mislabeled?  I've tried a number of different combinations of numbers, and nothing appears to have a consistent reaction.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
When I tested it, it seemed to work correctly for:
Food, Medicines, Weapons, Drugs.
It worked incorrectly for:
Luxury, Equipment, Alcohol, Minerals.

Since it works correctly for half the goods, it is a more peculiar bug.

Hmm, I know see exactly what the bug is.
The order of the:
Luxury, Equipment, Alcohol, Minerals
Products is reversed. Because of that, the values that are being filtered are mixed up:
Luxery <-> Minerals
Equipment <-> Alcohol

So if you search for Luxery goods, the values the minerals on that planet are used to decide whether the Luxery goods are filtered out and visa-versa.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
I have successfully managed to fix the broken goods search by hex editing the executable file and inserting some new code to circumvent the problem. You can download the edited ranger.exe here:
Download link
Note that this exe also includes my fix for the Unique ship crash. Use at your own risk. Make sure to backup your original exe.

Regards, Netriak.

Edit: Replaced download link. The previous one did not include a fix for goods on space stations, only for those on planets.

Edit 2: Replaced link again, I have now made a more proper fix.
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