EVE General Discussion

Some of you might remember my thread CCP allows some market bots? where I spoke against IGB javascript + cache-reading.

Well I finally got answer from GM to my petition and while I can't tell the answer because of forum rules I can tell what I've been experimenting with.

After using my new trading-tool for few days, it turns out that even small amount of automation can be huge benefit with right items.

Basically I open this website in IGB and start the automation. It then uses javascript + cache-reading to continuously check market orders. When my order isn't best anymore it shows delta to best order and new price for me to copy-paste into "Modify Order"-window. Especially large deltas are shown in red so I can easily skip them if I don't want to change price that much.

Short video to demonstrate this in action. (Automation is working from 0s to 14s where I notice new price in CC8 and stop automation to update my order for that item.)

This kind of automation works well when you aren't going to update prices every few minutes but maybe only few times a day, and you can leave computer running this while doing other things.

I don't have enough time and patience to make publicly usable application out of this, but perhaps some other developers can do that. If not, then traders having access to private applications like mine will have some advantage. (And I still don't like that this is allowed while many other forms of botting are not.)

This is quite heavy implementation (XAMPP + Python + reverence + custom scripting) so it's not suitable for general use. Also feature set is currently bare minimum required to actually use it (e.g. no real support for trading in several stations or with several characters.)