Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I guess this is only an issue for people inventing T2 and Reverse Engineering T3 as all you ever get are BPCs from it.

Keeping track of how much is left of what before I have to startup Reverse Engineering again for my T3 production, or just wanting to know how much in total you can produce at any giving moment in time from your huge pile of BPCs without going through every one of them, right clicking and check the info window to note it down in some huge spreadsheet.

I would like to have the ability to see how many items I can built from my BPCs without going through all of them making notes.

The API seems like the right place for that and there are already a lot of programs out there which I would assume would love the option to job to it and including the feature into there programs (like EVE IPH or EVEHQ-Prism). Right now, I can use these programs to do what I want to do, but I would have to MANUALLY enter a run value for each BPC I have, neglecting the fact that I wouldnt be able to distinguish between BPCs after API updates and my manual changes and some production, having to redo everything most of the time.

So I had a look into the todays API over there http://wiki.eve-id.net/APIv2_Char_AssetList_XML and had an idea to get the number of runs of a BPC into the current API without adding any new items to it.

BPCs are not stackable and we already have the variable "rawQuantity" in the output where "-2" means "this is a BPC". So in that special case, you could reuse the normal "quantity" output variable for the number of runs of the BPC (as the BPC is not stackable and will never be >1 in quantity making the whole field useless for BPCs).


3rd party programs could pick that up and finally deliver a more realistic version of your assets list out of the game. I can understand that this might be a total waste of time for people only using T1 BPO, but for me atm only doing T3 stuff, it would be more then welcome.