EVE Technology Lab

Yeah, there was a while where I wasn't allowed in 1.0 space, but the area I hung out in had a lot of it, so I ended up having a very long avoidance list

Always good to get another application to make life in New Eden easier.

Thank you for your time and hard work.



DMC

Can you give an example of input that gives you an error?

That's why I ask directly for the resulting warp speed and align time and etc. I don't want to mess around with the 5 million different factors like ship and skills and implants - it's a lot easier if you just type in the resulting speed.

Someone richer give this man some isk. This is a fantastic resource for haulers.

Maybe speak to red frog regarding some sponsorship?

So right now what i'm mainly looking for is ideas for more tools like this. That's the only page on the site right now, but I'd like to add more.

Not easy stuff like capital jump planning, if you want that you can already use dotlan for it. I need ideas for simple stuff that doesn't exist yet. Like an autopilot ETA tool for example.

You can already do this just by doing a search with one of the destinations and then doing a search with the other destination.


I'm not too interested in checking the API for live data - everything should come from user input and the static data dump. Maybe some day I'll get into that, especially when crest matures and allows me to let users authenticate using their eve online logins (i really really really don't want to deal with creating my own auth system - i know how, but the most secure system is the system that doesn't exist at all).

So the third one is out.

For the second one, what I am picturing is creating an interface to input multiple waypoints, and it'll use some non-optimal algorithm to re-order them (see this for why it wouldnt be optimal) to minimize travel time. This would be good for asset pickups, but for courier contracts, you'll need to be able to add restrictions on the re-ordering to make sure that you reach the pickup station before the drop-off station. On the back end that's very easy to do (for the optimal algorithm at least) but it will take a lot of thought/work to develop a UI that isn't confusing. It also needs to be easy to use, it would be annoying to have to switch back and forth between your list of contracts and the site to type in station names in the order you need them.

And that doesn't even take into account the fact that your ship has limited cargo space.

What I'm saying is, it's a very complex problem, somewhat on the back end but especially on the front end. So I want to do it, but I can't promise that it will happen any time soon.

I may end up adding two separate tools, with one of them specifically designed for courier contracts. I'm just really worried about making the UI of the current tool so bloated that nobody knows how to use it to just autopilot a ship form one station to another.

In the short term I can focus on adding multiple waypoints and manually re-ordering them.

I like it! Should I ever wanna time my meals, this will do wonders!

You can ask it to avoid entire regions. so if you're an enemy to the gallente and you want to go from caldari space to minmatar space, you can tell it to avoid essence and sinq laison

Nice work. Good to see someone using the forum for something productive. I may even use this myself.