I'm currently working on a market analyser tool for Eve Online. This latest project has seen me dabble in programming (python and MySQL). Ack, the brain it does hurt so. While drafting another team status report it hit me that the whole thing would work better as a blog. And nows I gots one.
OK, Eve Market Analyser:
This is actually a collection of tools focused on collecting, mining, and displaying economic data. Some of the expected products are Trade Finders, Market Tickers, Buy and Sell Alerts, and Trending Snapshots. Many of these have been created by other entities in Eve but none tailored to our specific needs. And the nature of Eve keeps people from sharing much of their information. (Actually we are dabbling in this cut-throat nature by using Eve-Central's public market feed while directing our market order dumps only towards our own private database.)
Hot Tip #1: Information doesn't yearn to be free, it yearns to manipulated, twisted, and fucked with in the back of an expensive car like a hot bi-polar girlfriend with father issues.
I'm focusing on the Trade Finder first. Partly because it already exists in a form so it is easier to create, and also because I expect it has a solid chance of producing results. The Trade Finder will import all market orders from Eve-Central along with from our private contributors and mine this data for the best trades universe wide. As opposed to Eve-Central where you must select two regions to analyze this will parse everything. Though taking longer I don't expect it to server nearly as many users. Eventually I'd like to to accept a pilot's location, cargo capacity, and ISK for trading, and calculate the best ISK/Jump trade from there. Maybe even move towards an ISK/sec calculation someday.
OK, this got much longer than expected. I supposed the first post will have a lot of background. Next time I expect to stay closer to a State of the Code address.
Ciao'
The Dystopian
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