Science & Industry

First off I'm not sure if this is the right page to be posting this in but it seemed the most apropriate.

I'm trying to put together a salvage purchase process for my corp; the basic process would be that salvage would be purchased from corpies at our home system in null sec at perhaps Jita-25%, jump freightered to high sec and sold for corp profit.

I'm looking for a tool, or some way (perhaps using API keys) to work out the Jita buy/sell price for a large number of items in one go (if they are all in a cargo container for example). I've had a look around for something that does this but all the tools i've found require searching each item individually. Some of these applications allow you to save a list of items, but it would still take an incredibly long time to produce said list and keep it updated.

Any information would be appreciated, particularly from anyone with experience of handling similar schemes.

Hmmm that looks quite complicated to set up. If the finished excel sheet was someplace that might be very useful though.

My question is why? Rig bpos are very easy to research to perfect level and are cheap. Why not make the rigs to sell back to people around you for more profit, especially since you could mark the rigs up too, generating more profit in general.

imho being able to set up your own spreadsheets is an absolute must for an industrialist, mandatory if you hold a corp. The link provided is just what you want + the typeid database/table or however it's named.

If you want everything done and ready while you get your own ss ready, I think IskPerHour should have what you need. Another must-have tool for an industrialist. In the "update prices" page tick the "salvage" box. The rest is self explanatory if you have the tool handy.

Of course, google is your friend :)

The iskperhour tool does look extremely powerful and if I were to focus on becoming an industrialist anytime I would certainly use that. For now I'm being entrusted with only the very small facet of corp industry I explained above, and I'm far too much enthralled in making internet spaceships explode to be dabbling heavily as an industrialist for now.

Marsan, your method is an extremely slow variation on the website Termy suggested, and one which would require constant updating to be valid.

It's not that bad with googledocs. It'll take you a bit of trial and error to get the calls right, but once you get the first one, the rest are just a matter of looking up the itemIDs and splitting the data up into a useful structure.

One important thing. If you're using other spreadsheets that point to your prices, make two pages, one with the API pull, where you'll copy the numbers from, and one where you paste (values only) to and have equations pointing to. Otherwise, every time you load a page, it'll ping EVE-Central, and you'll eventually get blocked for a while.

With Contracts you have to specify all the amounts (which can be a big pain).

Probably easier to just put up buy orders in your home station. Sure, that means everyone can sell to you, but if you're turning a profit, that's a good thing.