EVE Technology Lab

The SkillTree.xml.aspx API call used to provide a nice list of all the skills, sorted by skill group and name.

Since Crucible, not only are the skills not sorted, but there are multiple groups with the same name, each with some of the skills. The server is getting the skills in random order and then creating a group hierarchy so that skills are enclosed in a group of the right name.

The end result is that almost any client wanting to use the data is going to have to reformat it, and for web-based clients, this is often impractical because (for example) javascript will time out while you're doing that.

I wrote a quick app to investigate the problem and generate the proper sorted results. You can find the output here if you need it:

http://evie.madoverlord.com:8080/SkillTree.xml.aspx

Since the skills list changes once in every 10 blue moons, I really rather think having it nicely sorted isn't too much of load on the API server.