EvE Income Analyzer Crucible Edition

Introduction

I have ported an ancient, useful EvE^® Online application to the new API specifications.

The application is called EvE Income Analyzer, it has been created by Carbon Freezer several years ago and published as Sourceforge project.
The software is mostly useful to traders, it provides a number of eye catching graphs showing your profitability, your orders, your best sold items, the most profitable stations, the best hours of the day to sell and so on.

I have ported it to Visual Studio 2010 and made a number of modifications so that it would run with the new API format and keys.

Due to my ever pressing time constraints I am not going to be able and polish it. It works and it’s delivered as-is. If I get bug reports I’ll try and fix them but please don’t ask for expansions or whatever. Instructions about how to use the software are available at the bottom of the Sourgeforge page linked above.

Purpose

The purpose of this program is to help the user analyze his market transactions on eve-online. It helps the user by providing various views on the data to optimize his sales and manufacturing business. The tool can also work in offline mode without being connected to the server. Multiple characters can be administrated.

It uses the eve-api to extract all the necesary data. Once data is collected from the central server it is stored locally on the computer so even data older than the time window that is provided by eve can be analyzed once it is downloaded.

Features

Automatically extracts character information from the account.
Can administer all characters used in the game.
The analysis time can be set over different time frames.
Will provide several views on the data in upcoming future.
Automatically checks for Web-Updates

How does it look like

Here are some screenshots taken from the original website:

For an up to date example of this software being used, please check this EvE^® Audit of mine.

Where to download it

Since the original project was abandoned years ago, I have put my own previous Tyrannis versions of EvE Income Analyzer on this website.

The new Crucible (tested to work up to Odyssey) compatible version is available on its page in the downloads section as well.

How to install it

Download the small Setup.exe file and double click it. It will take care of installing what’s needed. Both fresh software install and upgrade to the new version have been tested on two computers of mine and by another player.

In case you see a certificate expired message, it’s because you are looking at this page more than a year past when I last updated the software and the certificate expired. It’s just a “paperwork” detail that you may safely ignore.

The first time you start the application you will need to input your API key and VCode. In case you don’t know where to get these, there’s a button to bring you directly to the appropriate EvE^® Online page for that. The key will need to have all the market related options enabled for the software to work. Once you entered the API keys, EvE Income analyzer will need to load all your data from the API, the process might take some minutes and the application will be unresponsive (frozen) until that operation is complete. I don’t particularly appreciate that behavior but adding progress bars and whatever goes beyond my available time.

If you find issues, please post about them on the official EvE^® Online forums thread. I will not reply to technical issues on this website.

Definitioner

1 (OHLC)

Open, High, Low, Close (and sometimes Volume) data, is a finance industry standards format used to represent price evolution during a certain period of time (daily, weekly, hourly...). OHLC data are consumed by financial analysis applications and by charting software to represent price action.

1 (audit)

The general definition of an audit is an evaluation of a person, organization, system, process, enterprise, project or product.

1 (Meta game)

Meta gaming is a broad term usually used to define any strategy, action or method used in a game which transcends a prescribed ruleset, uses external factors to affect the game, or goes beyond the supposed limits or environment set by the game. Another definition refers to the game universe outside of the game itself.

1 (emergent)

Emergent gameplay refers to complex situations in video games, board games, or table top role-playing games that emerge from the interaction of relatively simple game mechanics.

1 (sandbox)

A sandbox game is a type of video game design where a player can roam freely through a virtual world and is given considerable freedom in choosing how or when to approach objectives. Sandbox emphasises a paradigm where, as in a physical sandbox, the user is entertained by his ability to do as they wish creatively and with there being "no right way" of playing the game

1 (discretionary)

A discretionary method is a trading method where little or no mechanical tools and procedures are used to decide the trades. A discretionary trader applies a solid ruleset basing on a flexible interpretation of the market

1 (PLEX)

A Pilot License Extension (PLEX) is an item that adds 30 days of game time to an EvE Online account. It is freely traded like any other in game item. CCP accepts to convert in game PLEXES to real money in case disasters and emergencies happen.

1 (NEISIN)

A New Eden Interstellar Securities Identification Number (NEISIN) uniquely identifies a security. While its structure is identical and strictly compliant with "real life" ISINs, NEISINs are tailored to New Eden investments and contracts.

Comments

jonki says
9 May 2013 at 12:47
Thanks for modifying the code for the ‘new’ api. Is there a link to the source code somewhere? If not, please publish it.
Moxnix says
26 April 2013 at 21:22
Looks like it has potential but as long as it only handles a single account it’s basically useless to me.