EVE Technology Lab

Greetings, everyone!


I'm pleased to announce that EVEHarmony.com is now available for open beta!

EVE Harmony is a site dedicated to making PvP content in EVE as visible as possible. We hope to help players get more of the fights they want, and fewer of the ones they don't!

The site allows for posting of various types of intel, such as gangs, solo pilots, reinforcement timers, sovereignty war, and public PvP events. The site includes a lot of IGB-oriented features, such as the ability to click on an intel report's System to set your autopilot destination there, broadcast your ship type and location in a virtual "Come at me, bro!" to the universe, and our PvP HUD which shows you the most interesting API statistics and intel for your character's current region, updating as you fly around.

Intel that takes more than a little effort to collect (such as reinforcement timers) will be available for sale for a small fee, and those who report the intel will be paid in site credit when other users purchase the intel, allowing those who diligently report intel to the community to be rewarded for their effort!


Disclaimer: This is an open beta, so there will be bugs. The site's development has reached the point where we feel that the site's potential should be evident to those who use it. However there are many more things we still want to work on, improve, add, and fix.

That's where you come in! Seeing how users use the site, and getting feedback from the community will help inform our developers as to what we should work on next. Found a bug? Report it (or exploit it!) and we'll get it fixed soon!

I hope you guys enjoy the site, and use it to get lots of sexy kills! Please post below with any feedback you have about the site, and we'll take it all into consideration as site development continues!

Want to learn more about the site? Read the Site FAQ!

You can also join the discussion ingame in the chat channel 'EVE Harmony Chat'!

Thanks for your time! Fly dangerously!

Haha, yeah, since it's planned to be a sort of EVE PvP matchmaking service "find the pew for you!" I figured eveharmony.com was an appropriate name

IT'S A TRAP!!!

Then don't use it. Real simple.

Intel... this is why I'm so conflicted with the tool I'm working on... Also... what stops people from simply submitting tons of fake info to render the information displayed untrusted?

Nothing yet, though eventually there will be a karma system, similar to Ebay/Amazon sellers. Buyers of intel will be able to upvote or downvote the intel based on whether they consider it to be reliable. Intel posted by people who get consistently upvoted will have their intel flagged as being from a more trustworthy source, and vice versa.

As an EvE player you should probably retain a lawyer for legal PvP. Eharmony might get uppity and say it sounds to similar to their site.

But who knows.

Or they can buy it from people that do. A website isn't even required for this; I have sold the location of POS's, particular WH entries, and capitals, all in private chat. Jessie is simply streamlining the process.

If you don't like it, don't use it. Other people can do as they wish.

Instead of trying to identify intel that isn't trustworthy, a much easier problem to solve is identifying intel that comes from trustworthy sources such as users who have their intel upvoted frequently.

The fact that the site is both public and anonymous means that troll posts will always be possible. But eventually a combination of karma and other site features should make it easy to spot, ignore, or hide intel from untrustworthy sources.