EVE Technology Lab

Newest Version (1.F): http://eve-files.com/dl/249861

What is the Planetary Profit Calculator? It determines the cost of any PI product, including taxes, depending on how you are making the product. This is the new forum thread for it, old forum thread located here.

[Download Link] current version: 1.F

Main screen screenshot

So how does it work? Upon downloading and extracting, you’ll find inside the extracted folder a file called ‘Planetary Profit Calculator.exe’ with a fancy rocket icon. Run that. To start finding out the costs of your product, You’ll want to hit the ‘add new plan’ button. That’ll bring up this window. Give it a name (or the program will pick one for you) and select the planet you are working on. If your final product requires more than one single planet, select ‘Plan’ from the plan/planet box. Select your final product (the one you’re ultimately going to sell/use) and select what initial products you are starting with. If your initial products are not all of the same level, hit the ‘be picky’ button. This will allow you to select any of the component products that the final product needs. Once you’ve made your selection, hit the ‘add product’ button. Depending on what the final product level is, you are allowed several final products per plan. Hit the finish button when you’re finished (obviously) and the window shall close.

The program now has added your plan as a tab. Go to that tab now. You’ll see something like this. The icons have been changed since this picture. Each product used to make your final product is listed. On each product in the upper window is a drop-down box. This is what you do with the product just before it is consumed to make the product above. I.E. are you importing this product? Exporting it, moving it to another planet and importing it? Or just processing it (stays on planet)? Select the right icon for each product.

The lower window allows you to set the prices of your initial products, and gives you information about the amounts and volumes needed to build an n amount of your final product. The main tab gives an overview of each plan by showing the incurred taxes and the cost per unit. You may set the price that you wish to sell it at, as well as how many you wish to sell, and it will determine your profit and profit margin.

The taxes tab lists how the taxes currently work and if you wish, double-clicking on any of the numbers in the table will allow you to change said number. The taxes are then recalculated. Also on this tab has a spot to pick up the prices from eve central.com. If you’re ever confused on something, there are tips hidden in the mouse-over text. On plan tabs there is a little blue ‘i’ icon, which hovering over will give information about the plan tab itself.

So that was a brief overview, and the older thread also goes through an example. So give it a whirl!

i would like to extend wishes of keeping up good work

On the taxes tab there's a section to import eve central prices. If just that section is graying out, then it got the prices. If the whole tab grayed out (or the whole program) then well that's a bug I've only ever seen when it fails to load data correctly. And I've only seen that when I changed/moved some code around and didn't fix it. How exactly does it gray out?

There’s the spot on the main tab that allows you to input the number of buildings you have. Or are you asking that the program calculate those numbers for you? I’m not seeing it as a handy time saver as you already have your planet set up (unless you’re just looking at production plans you don’t have set up). I would also have no way of knowing how many buildings are used in parallel production, as the maximum number of those is determined by powergrid and cpu leftover from links. The best the program could do is to determine the minimum number of buildings needed, and I’m not seeing that as any real useful information.

Cool program :)

I cant get it to work out profit.

I see in prices.xml:
product buy="9500.0" name="Coolant" sell="4900.0"

And I have a plan to create Coolant
I put in zero for the 2 PO items.
(it says "Notes: click to start" what ever that means).

However in the Summary box, everything is 0, except:
Sell Price 10000.00
Quantity 5
Profit -55,000 ISK
Profit margin -1

Why isn't it calculating profit? And it doesn't look to be using the price from prices.xml

The buy and sell price in the xml of a final product aren't used to calculate the cost of the final product. The buy price is seen when you hover the mouse over the sell price box on the main tab. the sell price in the xml is what you have paid/ the price of it if you paid for the product if its being used as an initial product. Now that I think of it, the names probably should be the other way around. In other words, don't try to make sense of what's stored in the xml's. The program does that.

As for what you're seeing, its not an error. It's something I forgot I had added. When the program sees that you have spent absolutely nothing to make your product, it deliberately gives a wrong number. At the time, this was impossible because you had to spend something (taxes) to actually sell the product. But now since taxes could be zero, this might no longer apply. Then again, initial products you mine extract might not be free and should be given a price. The 'Notes: click to start' I thought was apparent. click there and start typing notes.

I don't have much time to work on this program right now though, so I currently can't remove what you're seeing.

I'm not quite sure what you mean. Add in the products that use the PI materials, like another level above 5? or have the export/import options in the dropdown box have a 'export for further production' option?
I may have some time to return to working on the program "soon", but don't hold your breath.
And the current version of the program has passed 1000 downloads!