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Official killboard
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ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors
#21 - 2014-05-30 19:25:02 UTC
Bearded Forum Alt wrote:
ShahFluffers wrote:
CCP puts out the information at minimal cost and effort for themselves and lets other people spend the time and effort to compile and manage it in more or less exactly the form players want. And when things break (they always break at some point) CCP doesn't take the blame and doesn't have to spent the time and effort to fix it... allowing them to focus on things they want to focus on.


Your explanation as to why there isn't an official killboard is plausable, and very likely to be true.

This thread is now about the merits of having centralized, comprehensive kill data made available. It doesn't have to be a CCP killboard. It could be like a kill data dump API, which third-party tools can scrape. That would be preferable to getting the data via character APIs.

Someone go make a thread about doing this for market data, too.

You pretty much described what the entire API system more or less is at the moment. CCP makes player's API keys (which can include kills, deaths, and/or all other character information) available to them and players voluntarily submit them to their favorite kill boards (of which there is only 3 that I know of; Battleclinic, EVE-kill, and zKillboard).

And to my knowledge, there is market API data available but it is delayed to prevent wholesale market manipulation.

How did you Veterans start?
Mazzara
Band of the Red Sun
#22 - 2014-05-30 19:27:48 UTC
I would like to see an in-game kill board. Why not? I mean to me 3rd Party means, should be in the game to the point someone else built it
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Bearded Forum Alt
Doomheim
#23 - 2014-05-30 19:49:28 UTC
ShahFluffers wrote:
...players voluntarily submit them....

And to my knowledge, there is market API data available but it is delayed to prevent wholesale market manipulation.


That's how it works now, yes. I'm suggesting that the aggregated data be made available without player consent.

The data on eve-central comes from APIs that players submit, too, I thought. I'm not clear on whether or not there is aggregated market data to scrape otherwise.

None of this has to be displayed in real-time. I'd just like it to be accurate and comprehensive. That kill mails can be verified now is great. That makes them accurate. Now they all just need to be displayed somewhere.
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