About this website

Mark Hamill

This website has two purposes.

1. A vent for my rantings and ramblings regarding the economics of the EVE universe.

2. A home for EVETycoon, a trading and financial management program written for those involved in the alternate reality of EVE-Online

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EVETycoon 3.1.3

After getting tired of waiting for CCP to respond to numerous posts and bug reports regarding the ‘chages’ they made to the CSV API exports, I’ve updated EVETycoon to… incorporate these changes.

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EVETycoon crashing due to CCP borked API

Basically, with Incursion, CCP for whatever reason, started adding in carriage returns to their character CSV export from the API.

Instead of having a nice, properly formatted csv line, EVETycoon is trying to parse this mess:

011-04-24 12:45:00,4246641101,Planetary Construction,Mark Hamill,CONCORD,Planet IV,-250000.00,4424711487.48,”Construction on EveLocation ID: 40344524, “”Planet IV”":
1 x Gas Storage Facility

“,,

No, that’s not word wrap.  That’s carriage returns in a CSV.  Huge bork.

Until this is resolved by them, ET may crash when using the character or corp api features.

If it does, you’ll have to go into a hidden directory:  C:\users\user name\appdata\roaming\EVETycoon and delete any file that begins with a Char or Corp.  Once you restart ET, it should work fine.

Sorry for the inconvenience.  As soon as they fix it, it’ll work again.  Until that time, trying to get character or corp API information MAY cause it to crash again.  Not all of the data in the exports is affected.  It appears that only things added or changed (like deleting PI extractors and getting refunded) to the journal since Incursion are a problem.

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Back again.

Finally back from a lengthy break from EVE. I need to take them periodically to remind myself what real life is like.

With my return, ET3 is now in open beta with all beta restriction and codes removed.  You can download the latest version here: http://www.twistedvoid.com/evetycoon-3/

Screenshots are located here: http://www.twistedvoid.com/evetycoon-3/evetycoon-3-screenshots/

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Getting started in trading

Trading can be one of the most profitable career’s in EVE.  I dare to call it a career because depending on which avenue you choose, it can be more of a passing interest.  Unlike most isk making methods in EVE, trading generates the best kind of income, passive.  Once you set up a buy or a sell order, it can run up to 90 days without you even looking at it.  Whether it succeeds though is a different story.

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EVETycoon 3 closed beta sign-up

Within the week I’ll be opening EVETycoon 3 to closed beta testing.  The beta testing will be limited in the number of people who will be given download access.  I want to keep this first group rather small and hopefully get some good feedback. Continue reading

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EVETycoon 3 Screenshots

The following are some current screenshots of EVETycoon 3. Continue reading

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EVETycoon 3 – The Profit Finder

Included in the new version of EVETycoon 3 will be the Profit Finder.  This tool is an extension of another tool in EVETycoon, the Market Analyzer.  The purpose of both of these tools is to help identify potentially profitable trades that you’ll want to invest in. Continue reading

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EVE Cache Monitor Beta 01 Download

EVE Cache Monitor (ECM) is now in EARLY beta release.  Please use at your own risk.

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The great flood – CCP makes massive changes to drop rates.

This is a case of Icelandic logic gone wrong, very wrong.

Back in March of this year, CCP announced that it would be tinkering with the loot tables, i.e. drop rates in missions.  The purpose of this tinkering was to reduce the number of minerals that mission runners were getting from their loot.  The logic behind this was, minerals should come from mining… primarily.  Secondly, it should come from the refinables dropped by drones in missions and the 0.0 drone regions and finally, minerals should come from missions.

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