EVE Technology Lab

Would you please reconsider your position on this one?

It doesn't have to be complex.

In our case, what would be helpful is knowing what planets a character has command centers, what commodities are being extracted or produced, and the time until those extractors are scheduled to end. Maybe beyond that just a list of assets (commodities) that can be transported to a Customs Office.

This would go a long way toward making it possible for us to create tools that help us keep track of PI installations. On a personal level, we can make sure we're re-installing our extractor programs when they finish. Currently, there is no way to automate this like you would with EveMon and your skill queue. On a group level, such as a corp or alliance, it would help us better manage projects where many people are "chipping in" different commodities toward a common end.

I don't understand what you are saying when you say "data schema incompatible with API." The API outputs XML. What data is not compatible with XML? I can understand that it might be more challenging to represent a complete PI installation in XML, but you are already doing this in your databases or PI wouldn't even exist. But putting that aside, most of us do not need anything that complicated.

With the advent of POCOs, this becomes an even more important aspect of Eve that is missing from the API. You guys have been great at providing us with important data we can use, but this is one area that has been neglected. I did some Googling and this has been asked for since as early as 2011, so it is needed/wanted.

Please reconsider your stance on this.

It doesn't have to be complicated -- some basic data is enough for 95% of the ways in which it would likely be used.

Thank you.
Please we count on you for this.
Be our Champion.

Thank you. I can see why the DUST community admires you so much.

I really appreciate your willingness to look into this. Something else crossed my mind after I read your post: there would also be value in being able to query the tax rates and owners of the POCOs for different planets. Perhaps a separate query for planetary information in a solar system? If I could query a system and get a list of planets, their types, and the POCO rates, there is a lot we can do with that.

Querying the owner of a POCO is not the same thing as querying data on a moon with a POS. They are wholly separate things. POCOs are planet-wide structures; the moons are not even relevant in this context. If you put up a POCO, you're taking over aspects of a system that make you noticeably more public than a POS does. It's information I can learn with very little effort, but I think your argument is "no free intel" and it's a fair point that you could query every system in Eve. I don't see the problem there (putting up a POCO puts you in the spotlight; it seems like something that should qualify as public data), but the tax rates are most important. Much of this information is already available in the data dumps, from system and planet information to commodity listings. It's just very generic data. With the advent of greater user control where data is no longer static, we need a programmatic way of obtaining current information.