EVE Technology Lab

The API pages have gone fugly. With the new backgrounds for Parameters / Log Format / etc, it's impossible to read the text without selecting it.

Also, it would be nice if we could link directly to specific API explanation pages instead of saying "go to this URL, then scroll down a lot and look for XYZ".

2 little bugs.

1) In candle bars graph, there's a nice mouse over tooltip that tells open, close etc. But its Z-Order makes it go below the selectors for the months and history.

Screenshot

2) Also, in the same screenshot, you can see how sometimes the candle bars appear with no body at all. It should always show at least 1 pixel. The item in the screenshot where you can see this behavior is Single-crystal Superalloy I-beam

I am aware of the problems with some of the parts of the interface, however, I'm super busy in RL right now, so updates will have to be a bit delayed.

Regarding the comparisons, those can be done changed on the same page by using the plus button, and can be removed on the group summary page (click one of the links in the breadcrumbs to get there) . A link to delete on the same page will follow.

I will also mention, that though I would very much like a item summary page for combined regions, the architecture makes this a bit difficult. Would it suffice if the page would just serve the item info table and the orders list (no trends, history, manufacturing etc. At least at first?)

Good idea on splitting up the API pages, would probably make more sense and give me less headaches.

As far as my function request is concerned, I would not need trends to go with the combination of regions. The trends, history and manufacturing would be available through means now available. Within product groups I have on the markets the named tabs would not have additional value, since I have enough tools available to notice inter-regional market trends at this moment.

Additional non-urgent request; within the "Transaction Summary" overview page, you can specify a period to look at, can you make this dynamic again? so, if I set the period to include last month, I would like to see that each time. Now I adjust the period each time to the appropriate period. But the function serves it goal, It just would be great to have, thats all. Thx anyhow.

And another such one; on the "Selling Speed" overview page I would like to drop the price, so I can see average moving speeds "product based" in stead of "order sell value based" (most products have a wide price spread throughout the several regions). This information I not gather in my own tools yet, so this would be a great addition. With this information I would be able to refine my MRP / DRP planning system. Thx.

Very cool, Callean.

I'd love the "file date-time" check because my other programs all auto-detect EvE cache file location and moving them will make those softwares stop working. It will also make the whole EvE caching mechanism pointless.


Second thing:

The search edit box is too short, items like Single-crystal Superalloy I-beam get cut very short. There's some room to the right of the search box or its buttons could be put outside of it.


Edit: bug report.

I was wondering about mismatches between the in game values and the graphs till I noticed this:

1) I opened Robotics

2) The resulting page is in this screenshot.

Notice how it states:

"Updated 2012-02-28"

while the last candle bar is off Feb 25.


Now I am going to try upload a newer data but this is just one of the items affected by this same thing.

In the LP store, it would be nice if we could have the blueprints too. I know the prices of blueprints is not realistic because people are going to manufacture it asap but it could be nice to have them featured. Also there is a SQL error at the first page of the Best LP page :



Aside from that, I'm toying with the new features, it looks great. Sometimes it seems not to work but I can't figure why yet so I'll get back to you when I do.

Most of all, I think it's that I hack together the stuff in a framework I built myself, it isn't really the best form of architectural coding (that is, I could spend twice as much time, and end up with somewhat prettier code), but it suffices. It is easy to add things that fall within the framework, but an insane expenditure of time to fix things that fall outside of that fold (for example, combining multiple regions).

In addition, the ISK Dollar Index is just the other index pages with a different and simpler query, so that one was exceptionally easy


Fixed it

I think the prices of blueprints are off the charts because there are no prices at all. This wasn't planned like this (wanted to show everything), I'll see if I can add them.

Today, added a (if I may say so myself) really cool feature.

Custom item lists! You hear this correctly, you can now create lists of item types you want information about. Currently, there is not much use for that though, as there's only one page that can make use of it. Anticlimax?

That page however, is really rather cool. It is also the most complex query I've ever written for EMK. With the possible exception of the traderoute finding alghorithm (which has never been released, yet).

In any case, I had always known it was a good idea to just buy stuff in Jita, and sell it in other solar systems for a markup, because people are lazy. However, I always had problems identifying the systems where it would be a good idea to sell stuff. Partially due to now know what missioning systems were, or what agents were available, but also because checking whether there already were quite enough competitors would prove to be a days worth of work.

As it turns out, this has also proven to be a days worth of work, but now I never have to do all that again. This report will check the region for all the items you have added to the list, and give you an overview of all solarsystems in which those are sold, with some additional information to make the spotting of lucrative areas quite easy.

The easiest way to explain is to just have you try it out. Just be careful, if you enter a lot of item types, the report might take a while to run (that is, 25 is probably the max if you want it to finish anywhere in a normal span of time, if you don't mind waiting, feel free to add more items :P)

****, it makes sense I should tell you that doesn't it

Account -> Lists

It actually doesn't take 30 seconds, because the graphing lib is so counterintuitive :P but yes, I'll see if I can do it