Skill Discussions

Hi folks,

I've started work on a new skill planning tool called Eve-Xin. It came about because I was having trouble getting excellent tools like EveMon and EveHQ running across the various platforms I use (particularly Windows and Mac), so started looking at writing something (also open-source) that worked without tying itself to one platform.

It's still very young, but it's currently enough to track multiple skill plans across characters.

It has a very simple website at http://kev.github.io/evexin/ and Windows and Mac packages (Linux you'll have to build yourselves for the moment) for the first beta are available at https://github.com/Kev/evexin/releases/tag/evexin-1.0beta1.

If anyone would like to give it a go and provide feedback, please do. If people think it has potential, I'll try to keep working at it as time allows.

Please be kind.

Thanks for looking at it and responding.

Yes, I think trying to feature compete with EveMon is madness and, daft as I might be, I'm not going to try. What I'm aiming for is to have something that's good enough for folks to want to use it. Probably only folks who use multiple (or non-Windows) platforms, as EveMon is the de facto standard.

My first aim was to get it able to do multiple skill plans in a simple way and predict training times based on implants etc. - it does this now.

My next aim is to get it to do skill tracking, so you can see what the character's currently doing, and to give useful status reports (you'll run out of skills in <24 hours, your account's about to expire).

Mid-term I want to get it doing more general stuff like reading mail etc.

My ideal would be to be able to open fits exported from the game and say "tell me how to fit this, make a plan", potentially also with "and plan mastery III on it". This one needs the database where everything until this point will just be the API, so this seems like a longer-term goal.

I don't particularly want to go down the EFT route.

But, saying that - if people were to like it, then getting it to do what's useful beyond what I need it to do seems generally desirable.