Wormholes

You know what would be an amazing feature? The ability to contract out the chain-building to someone else.

This would of course need corp->individual and individual->corp sharing (presumably no big deal).

Then a few little counters to record signatures/systems scanned out so the scouts could be paid nicely.

Then all the scout would need to do would be to drop a can full of BMs in your home system and presto - instant gas mining, relic hacking and ganking without the hassle of scanning!

I think if you did this you would elevate yourself from "Hero of W-Space" to "Minor Deity of W-Space"

Thanks for listening!

A couple more things:

• If I'm looking at a WH and I don't particularly want to hop through, I can look at the info text and see generally what part of space it will put me in. What about a text parser that would allow me to copy the text in that window and it will update the possible exit locations, the time left, and the mass left. Since there are limited possible responses this should be relatively easy.
• The option to manually set the time left on a WH/site. I've accidentally set a hole that was critical ~2hrs ago to "stable", then when I updated it again it had 4hrs on it. I want to be able to reset that timer manually so I have a better idea of how much time I've got.
• Information on the size of the hole in question beyond just "Frigate".
• There's no straight API info from CCP, but what about replacing that currently empty chart with zKillboard info?

Example for that first point:

Yup. Standard.
C1/C2/C3
between 24 and 4 hours
over 50% left
Only frigates, destroyers, or specially fit HICs can pass through this hole

Boom. Data scraped and can be put into the chain list automatically. Better yet, let us slap that in there and then prompt us for the WH type if we haven't put it in already. For example, if it says the WH leads to a hi-sec syste it will bring up a grid with the radio buttons listing all the possible types in alphabetical order. Select the button, hit submit, boom. Our WH is completely mapped without doing anything but ctrl-c, ctrl-v, and clicking the mouse.

So I made a very Hacky version of the signature parser I was talking about. It uses AutoHotKey and while it works, it isn't the best option.

Save all the text in this pastebin in a notepad as an .ahk file. Run it, then select a signature you've scanned down and hit ctrl+shift+q.

A message box will appear showing what has been copied to your clipboard.

To edit the string that comes out, go to the bottom. The if statement checks to see what kind of signature has been found (currently it only works for Sites and WHs. structures are sorta broken and I didn't bother to do ships at all). Find the tested section that pertains to your signature and edit the variables/text to your desired output. If you want a big list of possible variables delete the semicolon in front of Line 69 and put one in front of Line 82. When you copy something it will show you all the resulting variables. Edit your output as desired, put the semicolons back, and there you go!

Example:

For Wormholes I have % id " | " tgroup_s " | " as my output, so

BLX-821 Cosmic Signature Wormhole Unstable Wormhole 100.00% 25.31 AU

becomes

BLX | WH |

This allows me to manually type in the WH type when I arrive on grid with it.

Sites have % id " | " tgroup_s " | " name so

XQW-612 Cosmic Signature Gas Site Sizeable Perimeter Reservoir 100.00% 24.87 AU

becomes

XQW | Gas | Sizeable Perimeter Reservoir

So there you have it. EZ site saving. I'd love for this feature to become a button next to each scanned signature. Set what string you want to output in the settings and it gives you a window to copy from. You've already delimited each piece of information (and much more reliably than I have).

Actually if you tell me how you separated the fields I'd love to put that in my little script.

Some quick comments as someone new to using tripwire:

- Entire page seems to refresh everytime you want to view sigs in a new wormhole - in addition the chain will reset if you are scrolled over and you lose your place in the chain
By this you mean minimizing doesn't stick, right? Yeah that drives me nuts, especially if you're unlucky enough to have Thera in your chain.

- Naming wormholes to me seems like a faster and clearer way of communicating than J#'s and hole types
This feature already exists? System names and hole types are very valuable info and should be used unless you set another name manually (and you can already do that).

- Display static information next to the J # / class # / region info instead of below the activity graphs
I don't have a problem with them in their current location, but the activity graph's uselessness in w-space is a real waste of screen real estate at the moment. I think pulling info from zKillboard would be better than displaying an empty graph.

Can't set k162 frig holes without jumping through and getting the static type (or I couldn't figure out how to)
Very good point. I definitely would like to see more functionality on describing a given wormhole to Tripwire (manually set hole size, exact time left, high/low/null/C1-3/C4-6/C13 for K162s, etc)

Setting a 'home' wormhole was not intuitive
I didn't have a problem, but I agree that a lot of these features require you to stumble across them.

- The way the chain spreads out horizontally very quickly seems odd, design works for small chains but breakdowns quickly for larger ones. Forced to collapse chains but still want to see that information
I actually like the way this is set up. The option to have it spread vertically would work better for my screen layout, though...


- Direct link to zkill would be more useful than eve-kill
Yes. Yes yes yes.

- Jumps to closest trade hubs info for k-space systems should be somewhere on the system tab - would be less painful than having to add Jita and amarr as 'favorite' systems, then displaying favorite systems on map to search for the closest connection. Or some kind of 'exit finder' ala siggy
I would adore this feature.

- Would be nice if the mass log calculated the total mass passed through
Given the number of variables that goes into mass, I think the only way you could do this would be to input your fits manually and give their states on every jump. To me that seems like way too much hassle to actually use, and that means it's likely too much hassle for the developer to dedicate time.

You might wanna check your settings. Multiple corps can share no problem, why not alliance?

Try looking at admin options first, pretty sure you can set this thing up.

Is there a PDF guide or something? I can only find YouTube videos.

"Tripwire Public" :)

Yea, it is hard to keep an updated guide when I keep adding/changing things so quickly normally. Having a guide only good for a month or two is annoying

This is a good idea and I have added it to the new issue tracker! Check it out... https://bitbucket.org/daimian/tripwire/issues

A recent article I was privileged to be apart of by Mynxee http://crossingzebras.com/evetrepreneurs-daimian-mercer-tripwire/

It's possible that you have minimized the chain's tree in that tab. In the map pane, try double-clicking on the bottom of the box showing your home system and see if that expands the rest of the chain below it.