EVE Technology Lab

I know that writing to Eve's memory is obviously not ok, since you could potentially control the client, bot, etc with that. However is reading memory values itself ok? I was thinking about getting things like your ships current shield/armour/hull values, maybe current location, etc, is something like that fine? or no?

Thanks :)

What I understood was that as long as you aren't interacting with the client, as in your example, moving the mouse around, clicking on stuff, etc, that it was ok. That said, reading memory would allow you to make applications like Bacon, which was pretty lame when it existed. So I'd assume it is not permitted. Personally I'd like to make a fleet information aggregation tool, essentially extending alerting and monitoring features already present in eve, as well as a dotlan style mapping system but out of game, with realtime member locations, intel reporting, etc.

As for 'advantages'... well that's what writing external tools for eve is all about, regardless of if its my Trade analysis application or your Blueprint calculator :)

But yeah I suspect CCP frowns on reading memory locations, though I couldn't find anything specifically saying so. Most of what has been written is talking about actual interaction/automation.

ok, that sounds like a good idea, thanks

cache reading: greyzone legal
memory reading: lol, no.

bacon afaik did read local logs, which where kinda instant back then,
and stopped working when that was changed - i might be wrong here.