EVE Technology Lab

Hmmm seems as if you catered for this somewhat, I had issue updating costs on the manu screen, but it worked now and profit / loss seems correct.

Hi Acid Kanshi,

first eve-cost is an awesome tool already .... ;-)

I use it for a couple of weeks now for my T2 Ship production and found some things that could be improved a bit.

Most important: Recursive Calculation.

If I use the production calculator to calculate a Widow, I get a list indicating the need of some T2 Ship parts.
All of those are manufactured by myself and not bought on the market.

It would be perfect if I could set a checkmark and enter ME and PE for those parts that I want to produce myself and save that configuration for the Blueprint alongside all the other information that are stored already.

At least clicking the calculator beside those compound parts should open another production calculator page with all the data properly prefilled that was indicated for that item (Item Name and required amount).

The Cart I:

Putting a calculated Item X Blueprint (eg. 10 Runs, 100 Units, 20 times) to the cart results into an entry like that:
20 x Item X

I would like to see an entry like:
20 x Item X (10 runs, 100 Units)

The actual one did confuse me quite often already if I plan for ships with different run amounts.

The Cart II:

Actually the Cart is used for two different but incompatible jobs:

1) Shopping list
2) Actual initiation of production

Due to the fact that I produce all the ship parts myself the cart gets cluttered with subcomponents that are not purchased at all. Just removing those entries would not help because the cart itself is used to trigger and track the production jobs (Delete to calc). It works but well, better to seperate things that do not belong together ....

Suggestion: Introduction of Production Plans and a Production Queue

The idea is to have a tool to assemble a comprehensiv production plan for a certain production package and a queue (list) that can be used to work through all required manufacturing jobs to build that package.

For a Widow Package for example that would incorporate:
The production calculation for the basic material list of the widow blueprint
The production calculation for all the sub items
The production calculation for all the Moduls and Charges I like to include
The invention (cost) calculation for all requried T2 blueprints to get a proper price for the package

If I need a variation of such a package (different modules or invention decryptors or like), I just want to copy the whole plan, rename it and then change some parameters or elements. Over time, this way I will have a nice collection of package plans to reuse. A big time saver.
Sounds a bit complex but at the end of the day such a package plan element is just a collection of some Item ID's together with an amount and some parameters and Flags for each ID.
Actual prices are taken from the market or the warehouse only when such a package plan is reviewed for production decision making or during initiation of the actual production.

Planning an actual production run would be easy now.
I just open my predefined Production Package and add the required number of the package to the cart (This amount per package should be changeable in the cart any time).

Inside the cart all items that need to be taken of the warehouse or purchased on the market should be listed with regard to the actual stocked goods. Items that are selected as locally produced should be taken off that list.

Within the Production Queue everything that needs to be manufactured, should be listed in a cummulativ way. The calculated amount of things to produce should take into account what already is available in the warehouse. As soon as all materials are available that are required for a certain item production run, the 'Delete to Calc' (probably better name: 'Forwarded to production' ) link should be provided. A deletion is not necessary, because as soon as the item stack has entered the warehouse the demand, that has caused the enrtry to appear in the queue in the first place is fullfilled. It will disappear automatically.

With such a plan based shopping cart, planning multi package production sessions will become easy.
Even changing the whole production planning on the fly (cause of changing damand or market) will be no problem.
That's just beacause procurement management and production control is seperated now..

If the package plan thing is to heavy for now, probably the cart / queue thing could be implemented with even not touching the rest. Having that alone would be a huge improvement though.

Hope that's not tooo big a wish.
;-)

Best regards
Harlekin

WTF?

Why didn't I see this tool earlier??

Whom do I contribute ISK for making my life easier now?

Added item copy parser to warehouse. Basically it's another way to add items to warehouse manually. Details or List view in inventory in-game allows you to select items and then copy them by using simply ctrl + c key combination. This way you can just ctrl + v that to the copy parser textarea and press Parse.

http://www.eve-cost.eu/warehouse/copy_parser

Would it be to much of a request to tune the priority of that T2 Blueprint to Warehouse thing somewhat higher?

Actually I have to recalculate the cost of a T2 blueprint using the invention calculator merily on a daily basis by now. Copying that cost figure into clipboard and pasting it into the Blueprint Price field of the Manufacture calculator is manageable but not too comfortable.

I would like to see those BPC costs at the manufacture calculator retrieved from the warehouse automatically if there are such costs available. Having those common 'Get XXX Prices' buttons alongside as well would be probably more or less useless because those BPCs are available by contracts only, if at all.

At the invention calculator, having a 'Process Blueprints to Warehouse Button', like at the Manufacture Calculator, along with the number of actually succeeded jobs entered manually would be charming then.

With the above already in place, rolling out the queue idea for manufacturing and invention later (by Xmas ?) would be the sweet topping of an already very delicious tart....

Acid, this tool really rocks! And it get's better every week....!
Thx man!

Best
Harlekin

Hi Acid,

seems my Warehouse Prices have been spoiled a bit....
What about a Button to reset them?
- Reset to 0
- Reset to actul Market Value

Cheers
Harlekin

That's right.
But what if I gonne clear a lot ot the them or just all?
With my 100+ stock items editing them one by one is a nice kind of a nightmare, isn't it?

Cheers
Harlekin

Is there a problem with server? Wasn't able to use your amazing tool today! :)

Overhauled the Research calculator. It now shows levels up to 999 which have an effect on the production time or manufacturing cost. (refresh browser cache)

http://www.eve-cost.eu/research

Added Reprocessing calculator. Refining calculator will be replaced with Reprocessing calculator soon, since they serve the exact same purpose.

http://www.eve-cost.eu/reprocessing

Thank you all for donations, they really help.