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Callean Drevus
Caldari Icosahedron Crafts and Shipping Silent Infinity
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Posted - 2011.08.30 18:33:00 -
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Edited by: Callean Drevus on 30/08/2011 18:35:45
Originally by: malaire
Originally by: Marcel Devereux I would also like to see the number of buy/sell transactions.
There is already transactionCount. If you mean separate counts for buy and sell transactions, then perhaps you forgot that each transaction is both buy and sell, depending on whether you ask from buyer or seller.
Though it's pretty useful to know whether it's a buy or a sell order being fulfilled :) on a different note, since when are you in favour of cache scraping?
In any case, this is completely awesome! I wouldn't mind any delay less than a week or so.
It means I'll always have the historical data available, and people will still be interested in the true orders in a region, so services like EVE Marketeer are not immediately defunct (but won't have to gather the annoying history tab information anymore, meaning more focus on true orders).
As for the format, CSV is most desired.
Data would have to be available in episodes. Probably per day or per month. The person above me describes it well.
UPDATE: As for the timeline on the data, how far back will this data go? Personally I'd be very interested in seeing the history of prices even back to the launch of EVE, even if they aren't useful for my current trading (but I'm a data freak). ---
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Callean Drevus
Caldari Icosahedron Crafts and Shipping Silent Infinity
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Posted - 2011.08.31 10:27:00 -
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Originally by: Rasz Lin Edited by: Rasz Lin on 31/08/2011 05:05:18
Originally by: CCP Dr.EyjoG [ As CCP_Stillman mentioned then there is a real technical challenge to have close to live data. That challenge will not be resolved soon so let's focus on the 24 hour+ option.
Perhaps CCP should consider hiring someone from eve-central or eve-metrics, as they have/had NO PROBLEM generating this data live 24/7 with no delay.
I can tell you that this was only possible because of the low volume of uploads they received. I now do the same thing with EVE Marketeer, and it takes about 0.2 seconds to update the historical data for an item, so as long as I'm at less than 5 updates a second I'm ok (could be faster, it isn't optimized at all). Imagine doing this for the entirely of the EVE universe every time someone updates an order somewhere and it should give you an idea of the scope.
Originally by: CCP Stillman So I'd be very interested in hearing any arguments against provide data every, say 24 hours. Would that ruin it for the small guys, who can't do these sorts of tools?
Not necessarily since a lot of us provide these tools for free. In fact, I think the best tools that are in use are free (but then again, I cannot see what tools are not available to the general public). The problem is mostly making people aware that they exist ---
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Callean Drevus
Caldari Icosahedron Crafts and Shipping Silent Infinity
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Posted - 2011.08.31 18:17:00 -
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Edited by: Callean Drevus on 31/08/2011 18:17:36
Originally by: Barakach Side note: Do people not realize that you can get MS SQL Express for free? SQL is very powerful.
Do people not realize that MS SQL Express only runs on windows?
Quote: Once what was EVE Online then Spreadsheet online has now turned into Database online? :)
It was from the beginning :P this is what attracted me about EVE. ---
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Callean Drevus
Caldari Icosahedron Crafts and Shipping Silent Infinity
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Posted - 2011.08.31 18:47:00 -
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Originally by: Hel O'Ween Until you happen to use a locale where "CSV" is quite different. I work for an international company and have the "pleasure" to deal with exchanged CSV files. You know, in Germany in a "CSV" file, columns are actually delimited by ";" due to the fact that the comma is our decimal separator. Now try making sense out of a "real" CSV file.
Not exactly true. This is only an annoyance when you have to work with a lot of undocumented CSV files in different formats. If you know what you can expect it isn't very difficult to make sense of it. Nor an annoyance to work with. And I just do not imagine CCP will change the format every time they make a dump ---
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