Market Discussions

Right now you can 0.01isk any and all market orders you want with your monitor turned off, your keyboard unplugged, etc. All you need is a wireless mouse with a couple of side buttons. And that's 100% legal.
The API is quite something.

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Long story short, the process goes as such:

Make a CREST developer application off the developers.eveonline.com site. Use a localhost callback URL or somesuch, navigate to https://login.eveonline.com/oauth/authorize/?response_type=code&redirect_uri=http://localhost:8000/&client_id=censored_obviously&scope=remoteClientUI, get yourself an access token and a refresh token. All that good stuff.

Make yourself the ability to open up the market window for any given itemID on whichever market alt you want. https://crest-tq.eveonline.com/characters/charIDhere/ui/openwindow/marketdetails/ and all that.

Make yourself a CREST market order parser that gets prices off crest for whichever and however many items you choose. This has been around forever and I'm sure you can find example code more easily. Whether you choose to use the /all/ endpoint or not depends mostly on the speed of your script.

Make yourself some 1-line clipboard magic that makes it so all you have to do is hit CTRL+V, and the 0.01isking price comes out.

Hook into the XML API so that you can identify which of the CREST market orders are yours. Make sure your program jots down the order details so that it can continue identifying the market orders as yours, even after you've modified them. You only really need to do this whenever you've created an entirely new order, but since you can do it every 30 minutes, why not make sure everything's synchronized.

Set up your market window so that your orders are always in the same place on the screen, regardless of anything else. From talks with other people, this seems to be a difficult step? As far as I've looked, there's one conceptually easy solution and one conceptually annoying solution. Both have their pros and cons.

Pick 3 mouse buttons you're not going to use (such as side1, side2, mousewheel), and remap them to CTRL, V, and ENTER. This was actually the potentially EULA-violating part, but I have petitioned it and was given the all-clear. If there's one thing that might end up being illegal about this process, it's this step, because GM decisions can be overriden.

Combine all the steps above and try it out with one item.

Have your script iterate over all your market orders.

Turn off monitor, unplug keyboard, grab your wireless mouse and work on other stuff.

So in the end it looks something like this:

Script constantly checks CREST to see if you've been outbid. Eventually it finds that yes, you have, and on two items no less.
Script opens the market window for that item.

Script alerts you. This can be a beep coming from your computer speakers, a text message or phone notification, or whatever you may desire. Be creative!

You press RMB -> LMB -> CTRL + V -> Enter with one hand.

Script moves on to next item, alerts you, you press that sequence again, etcetera.

To me it seems to be way over the line insofar as the end result is that you don't even need to know what is happening in the client. At the same time, the individual elements all seem to be legitimate.

But the number of times the word "script" is used and the reference to programmable mouse-buttons let me think, this is at least borderline.

I think one of the reasons Probag is doing it is to point out the ridiculousness of it.

I assume it wouldn't be too hard to go a step further and use a little automated analysis in combination with the api to pick the items you will trade as well. So not only would you be able to 0.01 your orders without seeing the values involved but you would also be able to pick your items and set up the trades without ever knowing what items you are trading.

I can't see why this bit would be a problem. If you are just mapping a single keyboard key to a single mouse button then there is no issue as there is no benefit gained (except being able to say 'look! no keyboard!'). Each button still requires a single press and you are just moving the buttons from one physical location to another. If you were programming macros that would be different but substitution of single buttons shouldn't be an issue, any more than would be changing the hotkeys on your keyboard.

I just wanted to correct your title, what probag does is bolt action order updating, semi-auto order updating would require TOS/EULA breaking macros. The way most people update their orders is similar to muzzle loading a musket.