EVE Quantum Rise - Registration problems and updates
It appears registration is currently broken for EVE-Central.com for the new Quantum Rise expansion. Bear with me while I update the needed backend to fix the issue with the registration boxes not appearing.
CCP should really invest in a real HTML renderer. WebKit is really easy to integrate after all… Plus it would be orders of magnitude faster. But alas, that is not the case and registration is broken.
On the upside, this does allow me to pose an interesting question. What else would you like to see for registered users? New tools? A clean up of the corporate web hosting? Better security through the EVE API?
One feature I’ve been mulling over is wallet order uploads and/or transaction pulling. Either see your own orders while you’re offline and aggregate the statistics into a much better pricing model for the market. The current approach of using posted orders is flawed as it only provides a glimpse into what all commodities are trading at. After all, an order is not a transaction.
Thoughts?
I think it would be really cool to have a central API transaction log puller. Knowing what people actually paid for items would help with pricing. Distributing the data would be a bit harder as people don’t want to give away their trading routes, but I’m confident that it could be done with appropriate aggregation and munging.
Comment by Toramt — December 1, 2008 @ 9:01 am
I’m currently working on a desktop implementation of a trade-finder tool which uses the eve-central API to allow players to optimize their profit per jump for a particular commodity - the idea is that it will run using entirely local CPU, but be accessible via point and click from the EVE browser.
Would you be so kind as to add a CSV format dump of your station-names table? That will prevent me from needing to figure out how to use pgsql to convert it?
The idea is that the product will ship with a pre-compiled table of every possible jump-route between any 2 stations (this will be a big table), plus the best and worst security rating. That means I ought to be able to do a very fast lookup of route-data once we have found a potential opportunity.
Do please email me if yout hink you can help!
Sal
Comment by Salim Fadhley — December 6, 2008 @ 2:06 pm