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SJ Astralana
Syncore
#1 - 2016-01-03 21:21:48 UTC  |  Edited by: SJ Astralana
Hello rockstars,

EPM will be semi-retiring in 30 days. I'm unfortunately at a point where that code has burned me out and I'll be taking on new creative challenges.

The host will be converted to a free plan which means it will likely be occasionally unavailble due to bandwidth. Also, the Market Research Report will become less reliable as it will run less frequently.

The source is available on bitbucket; it's doable to download Visual Studio Community Edition and SQL Server Express and self-host the software, using IIS Express if you don't have Windows Professional. Even if you don't code you probably have a mate that can help with it all. Unfortunately I can't give you a database export as it's multi-tenant so take snapshots of your historical figures.

It's been fun.

Hyperdrive your production business: Eve Production Manager

Sagekur Achasse
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2016-01-04 00:18:51 UTC
Thank you for your efforts, the software has been a real joy to use this past year.

Looking forward to digging into the source.
KenFlorian
Jednota Inc
#3 - 2016-01-04 02:25:52 UTC
Thank you for this fantastic tool.
Shiloh Templeton
Cheyenne HET Co
#4 - 2016-01-04 03:40:14 UTC
Thanks for the effort you put into making Eve a better game. And best of luck with your next projects.

One of the downsides of the waning player count and forum activity is that some 3rd party tools are closing shop. Killboard, Carebarium, almost Eve Eye, and IPH thought about it. I hope CCP realizes this and tries to think of ways to counteract it -- like free account as they do with bloggers, etc.

SJ Astralana
Syncore
#5 - 2016-01-04 05:57:25 UTC
Other than the site being occasionally unavailable due to cpu usage and market research not running when the site goes idle, it should work as-is almost indefinitely. I said semi-retired, I'll still stay loosely connected to item database changes which are easily deployed. But the level of service is going to diminish. For a better experience it really would be worth it to spin up an environment; it's fun and you get nice big yellow screens telling you exactly which step you've missed.

Hyperdrive your production business: Eve Production Manager

Alicia Dnari
Dnari Mining and Manufacturing
#6 - 2016-01-05 17:46:38 UTC
I echo the sentiments of others. Although I've just gotten started with EPM, it really is an awesome program, and I regret coming in on the tail end.

Been a couple of lifetimes since I did any programming, but I'll take a look at the source code.

I don't know what "multi-tenant" means. Can you explain? Is there an explanation of your database design somewhere? Can I figure it out from the code in less than a hundred years? :-)

I'm also not sure about "historical figures", although I think you mean something like "every time you look at market details for a build material or an item you build, click the "export" button at the bottom of the window, and save those data somewhere". Am I right?

Noob question: After having using this for a few days, I infer that EPM operates on actual production data, so you have to build something for a while — a week or so at least, I think — before it starts giving you good numbers on where to set your buy and sell orders and suchlike. Is that right?
Alicia Dnari
Dnari Mining and Manufacturing
#7 - 2016-01-05 18:25:36 UTC
Oh, wait. Multi-tenant as in multiple users with different production and trade hub systems?
SJ Astralana
Syncore
#8 - 2016-01-05 20:17:00 UTC
Alicia Dnari wrote:
Oh, wait. Multi-tenant as in multiple users with different production and trade hub systems?


Aye -- Wasn't going to spin up a new database for every account P

Hyperdrive your production business: Eve Production Manager

Alicia Dnari
Dnari Mining and Manufacturing
#9 - 2016-01-18 15:27:42 UTC
The documentation that used to be available at dbsoft.atlassian.net is no longer there. For a while it just said 'not available'. Now it's basically complaining they haven't been paid. I get that, and I get that the documentation was a bit out of date anyway, but is there any possibility it can be made available somehow? A downloadable archive would be fine.
ScoobieBoy
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2016-01-20 02:05:07 UTC
Hi SJ,
Sorry to hear you are hanging up the coding Shocked
I have downloaded the code, and a TON of other things to try and make this work locally.
I am down to a few errors though, and have hit a wall.
The main issue seems to be around your dependency for your DbSoft.Cache.Aspect.* >= 2.1.0.6, where as I can only find 2.0.0.3 on the NuGet Sad
Any ideas ?
Mari Koskanen
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#11 - 2016-01-27 03:56:57 UTC
If/when possible, could you write up how you did it? I have absolutely 0 ability on how to get it up and running local.