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Xavier Zyrae
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Posted - 2005.12.19 22:13:00 -
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Ever wanted to quickly and easily be able to browse an online, up-to-date, EVE ships database? One that allows you to directly compare ships, sort by any ship statistic, filter results by custom search queries, make subselections of your results and even pull up full ship details (description, special abilities, skill requirements & images) with the simple click of a mouse-button.
Well, I for one did.  I looked around for a site that would satisfy my desires, but I wasn't able to find one. While there are plenty of sites that offer EVE ship statistics in some form or another, I found most of them to be too 'static', they offered little extra over what you can already do using showinfo in-game.
To fill this perceived 'void', I decided to build that online, up-to-date, EVE ships database myself. The result is ESSDB, accessible via the following URL:
http://essdb.milair.net/
In it's current v1.0 state it's feature list is as follows:- Ships DB contains all 200 player-pilotable ships currently in the 3796 EVE build
- Full descriptions, special abilities, required skills and statistics for each ship
- Dynamic interface, only show the stats you're interested in
- Sort results by any available ship statistic
- Filter results by ship type, race, tech level, 'faction' or a combination of either
- Mark ships you'd like to directly compare and easily filter out the rest
- Ship info windows (click on ship name) for 'casual' browsing
- Rewritten special abilities making them more consistent and less 'crytpic' than the texts CCP uses at times
It's kind of hard to explain the uses for ESSDB, my advice is just check it out, play a little with the interface to get a feel for it, and if you're anything like me, I'm sure you'll find it a pretty usefull resource. I'm planning to continue development of ESSDB, so any suggestions as to how it can be improved are welcome. The currently planned feature updates are:- Add a minimum of 2 images per ship to the ship info windows
- Add all subskills required for each pri/sec/ter skill shown in ship info windows
- Allow players to be able to upload (and save) their charsheet .xml file, giving them the option to apply skill-modifiers to all displayed ship stats
- Add user definable column presets
- Fix bugs
Updates will be posted to this thread, so stay tuned, and feel free to leave me comments / suggestions.
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Jernau Retoor
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Posted - 2005.12.19 22:23:00 -
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Great work! This is exactly what I've been looking for.
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Aeid Nomais
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Posted - 2005.12.19 22:27:00 -
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Good work.
May I also reccommend:
Object Inventory
I have been looking for a replacement to the outdated EVE Ship Comparer program which was so useful but haven't found anything similar yet. Lots of databases though. Also, many tools were lost when EVE-I went down.
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Blitz Hacker
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Posted - 2005.12.19 22:31:00 -
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Good page.. nice font... where'd you get it from? ccp? :P
lolz aside from the font; gj
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Xavier Zyrae
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Posted - 2005.12.20 12:14:00 -
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 Originally by: Blitz Hacker
Good page.. nice font... where'd you get it from? ccp? :P
Heh, the font is Arial, used on countless websites including eve-o, evenews, google, microsoft etc etc; nothing 'special' there.
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Kyle Caldrel
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Posted - 2005.12.20 12:16:00 -
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2 much info, on 2 little space=not eyes friendly
but usefull:)
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Mr M
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Posted - 2005.12.20 12:44:00 -
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Great work Xavier, now I don't have to wait for someone to update the eve ship comparer ini-file
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Raaz Satik
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Posted - 2005.12.20 14:45:00 -
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Awsome Xavier.
STICKY PLEASE?
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Thercon Jair
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Posted - 2005.12.20 15:24:00 -
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Is there a database that includes the new NPC ships? I've seen them on the database that was provided in this topic, but I would really like to see the new resistances of them, since serpentis have obviously changed.
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Alex Harumichi
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Posted - 2005.12.20 15:28:00 -
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Awesome, this is very useful, and I appreciate the compact format so I can easily compare ship stats. Nice work!
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Celeste Storm
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Posted - 2005.12.20 15:38:00 -
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Just great! Thumbs up! 
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Xavier Zyrae
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Posted - 2005.12.20 16:05:00 -
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Originally by: Thercon Jair
Is there a database that includes the new NPC ships?
if I could get my hands on a DB / file containing the new NPC stats I could pretty easily expand ESSDB to include all the NPC ships aswell. That is, if you guys would like such a feature...
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Xavier Zyrae
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Posted - 2005.12.21 19:00:00 -
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Originally by: Mr M
Great work Xavier, now I don't have to wait for someone to update the eve ship comparer ini-file
Thanks for the mention on EVEgeek. Would you mind adding a link to ESSDB in your links section aswell plz? I need help spreading awareness... ESSDB is here to stay!
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Azuriel Talloth
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Posted - 2005.12.21 19:10:00 -
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I suggest that when you add player skills, also add hardwiring implants which affect ship stats. Good job!
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Mr M
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Posted - 2005.12.21 20:14:00 -
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Originally by: Xavier Zyrae
Thanks for the mention on EVEgeek. Would you mind adding a link to ESSDB in your links section aswell plz? I need help spreading awareness... ESSDB is here to stay!
Oh, of course. I had just forgotten that I had a link page
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Harlequinn
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Posted - 2005.12.21 21:43:00 -
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Nice work!
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Xavier Zyrae
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Posted - 2005.12.22 13:22:00 -
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Originally by: Azuriel Talloth
I suggest that when you add player skills, also add hardwiring implants which affect ship stats. Good job!
Good idea, almost forgot about those. Added to the planned features list!
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Xavier Zyrae
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Posted - 2006.01.03 18:48:00 -
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Bump, for those that hadn't seen ESSDB before. =)
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Aman'Kartu
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Posted - 2006.01.03 19:09:00 -
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Very cool Can you add one last column that would do the math to add/subtract and create the average of the total numbers at the end?
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Grimwalius d'Antan
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Posted - 2006.01.03 20:18:00 -
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Excellent, although perhaps a bit sluggish performance wise (might be the connection here at my parents house though). Can't wait until you get some screenshots up too.
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Alaph Force
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Posted - 2006.01.04 00:17:00 -
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Edited by: Alaph Force on 04/01/2006 00:22:20
BUMP
I've been using this thing for a while and I love it. For those who remember ship comparer this is way better....
Now make it so I can outfit the ships Xav Thats got to be eaasy right
edit: Grim that has got to be one of the best sigs I have ever seen, ver nice
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Xavier Zyrae
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Posted - 2006.01.04 10:45:00 -
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Originally by: Aman'Kartu
Very cool Can you add one last column that would do the math to add/subtract and create the average of the total numbers at the end?
I presume you'd want this for resistances only? Wouldn't make much sense for most of the other columns. I'll look into adding such a column when viewing the "HP & Resists" only columns.
Originally by: Grimwalius d'Antan
Excellent, although perhaps a bit sluggish performance wise (might be the connection here at my parents house though). Can't wait until you get some screenshots up too.
Has anyone else encountered performance issues? It's responding nice 'n smooth for me, although due to the relatively complex structure of the tables it generates it will take a while to actually download the pages if you're not on a broadband connection. As for screenshots, I'll be adding more as we go, it's a rather time-consuming practice. =)
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Mamarto
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Posted - 2006.01.04 10:52:00 -
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Yep, it's the best ships database out there, there's just no substitute for that spreadsheet layout, makes ship comparisons so much easier and it's the one thing that keps me from using Jide's ship database. (Sorry Jide)
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EVECaronyx
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Posted - 2006.01.04 12:09:00 -
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Really nice work: good job! Thnx very much!
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Xavier Zyrae
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Posted - 2006.01.10 15:53:00 -
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ESSDB has been updated with some slight changes introduced in the b3805 patch. I also have some good news, thanks to t20's latest RMR-edition data export, I will soon be incorporating ALL NPC ships into ESSDB aswell! Stay tuned... 
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Savyor
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Posted - 2006.01.10 17:21:00 -
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Very Nice DB...and can't wait for the NPC addition as well.
Much appreciated Xavier.
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Xavier Zyrae
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Posted - 2006.01.25 13:33:00 -
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Up you go! I've recently expanded my collection of faction ships to include all faction frigates currently in-game (except the Silver Magnate  ), and four of the five pirate faction cruisers. So, I'll be adding screenshots of those, and many other ships, to ESSDB throughout the week.
Oh btw, please feel free to bump this thread every now and again if you find ESSDB usefull, it helps spread awareness throughout the playerbase.
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Xavier Zyrae
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Posted - 2006.02.23 13:38:00 -
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Time for another bump to raise awareness for those fo you that have never heard of ESSDB before, check it out!
I'm up to 55 out of 200 ships having multiple images in their info window so far, so I'm gradually getting there. I'm still working on ESSDB and appreciate any and all feedback... so don't be shy, if you like it, please say so.
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Xavier Zyrae
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Posted - 2006.03.03 11:06:00 -
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Updated to reflect some slight changes which were introduced with the Blood patch, ESSDB should be fully synced with the EVE b3896 build. Please post here if you find any errors.
On a sidenote, I have finished the coding which applies player skill & implant modifiers to all stats viewable with ESSDB. This includes general skill boosts, ship specific skill boosts, hardwiring implant boosts and pirate implant set boosts. Next on my list is implementing an easy way for people to add their charinfo to ESSDB so they can have it show char-specific modified stats... stay tuned.
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Danitar
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Posted - 2006.03.03 18:21:00 -
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Very nice Thank you !
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Xavier Zyrae
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Posted - 2006.03.05 16:02:00 -
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Originally by: Danitar
Very nice Thank you !
yw =)
ESSDB still alive and kicking, go check it out if you haven't done so yet...
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Missile Spammer
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Posted - 2006.04.05 00:25:00 -
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certainly the best ship db you'll find
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Xavier Zyrae
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Posted - 2006.04.05 11:49:00 -
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Minor update:
Fixed some errors in drone bay size listed for Recon ships and removed the 7.5% shield resistance per lvl the Hulk had listed. (Tux recently posted this was a static 'bonus', like AF's have, and applies to all Barges.)
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Syn Stalkyr
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Posted - 2006.06.09 18:27:00 -
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Keep it up, this thing is great. It gives me plenty to do while I do nothing at work for 8 hours a day.
I hope you can keep up with all these dang patches comin out everday.
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Mr M
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Posted - 2006.07.01 05:29:00 -
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Will there be an update with the latest changes to ship in the future?
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Tommy TenKreds
Animal Mercantile Executive
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Posted - 2006.10.06 23:30:00 -
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Just discovered this. It's very helpful, thanks.
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Salah22
Minmatar
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Posted - 2006.10.07 00:47:00 -
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Nice work, keep it up Xavier. :)
Suggestions:
1) Make the number of pages obvious. I searched for minmatar ships and was surprised not to see the Cyclone, It was hard to see that there was 2 pages of results.
2) Why 36 results per page max? increase this limit please.
3) Make 2 reset buttons. One for the "columns" (hidden ones) and another for the current search.
I hid columns I did not need (like hull hp), selected 2 ships to compare, then when I was finished I wanted to go back to seeing all the ships. The only way to do that was to reset everything, columns included. Thus my suggestion #3.
4) What if I desactivate a column by mistake and want to activate it back? Maybe you can list "hidden" columns at the bottom of the page using icons and checkBoxes, this way we can activate them back on if we wanted.
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Salah22
Minmatar
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Posted - 2006.10.07 17:10:00 -
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Xavier : how do you prefer to receive feedback? by email or should we just post here?
A couple of problems:
- The Cheetah is a Minmatar ship, but it says in the requirements that it needs caldari skills. "Primary Skill Required - Caldari Frigate Level V"
- Comparing the the skill requirements for the Cheetah on eve-online [click here], I see that you only list 2 skills while the official website lists 7. Is there a reason to that?
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Xavier Zyrae
Extinction Level Event
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Posted - 2006.12.01 01:00:00 -
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Edited by: Xavier Zyrae on 01/12/2006 01:02:52
Originally by: Mr M
Will there be an update with the latest changes to ship in the future?
Yes! In fact, I've just finished it! =) All the stats are now fully up-to-date with the latest changes introduced with the Revelations release.
For those that were wondering:
- Yes, I updated every single stat manually (using the in-game info-windows).
- Yes, it took me quite a while.
- No, it wasn't much fun...
But hey, if my work is still appreciated by the EVE community, it was worth it!
Originally by: Tommy TenKreds
Just discovered this. It's very helpful, thanks.
You're welcome. =)
Originally by: Salah22
Nice work, keep it up Xavier. :)
Thanks for your suggestions, I'll keep them in mind when I get around to updating the ESSDB-engine. Feedback here is fine but you can also EVEmail it to me if you like.
As for the problems:
- Covert Ops racial-skill reqs. have been fixed.
- The skill reqs not listing all required skills is due to a technical issue, ESSDB currently only lists the parent-skills required, not the child skills required to actually train the parent-skills. I'll probably fix this when I update the ESSDB-engine sometime in the future.
That's it for this update... now go check out the Revelations stats!
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Kiyano
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Posted - 2006.12.01 01:25:00 -
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Sweet, very useful.
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Xavier Zyrae
Extinction Level Event
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Posted - 2006.12.01 12:58:00 -
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Originally by: Kiyano
Sweet, very useful.
Glad you like it, help spread the word!
http://essdb.milair.net/
If you haven't checked it out yet, you don't know what you're missing...
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Xavier Zyrae
Extinction Level Event
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Posted - 2006.12.16 16:09:00 -
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*nudge*
Feedback appreciated.
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Esaka
Caldari
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Posted - 2006.12.16 16:45:00 -
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Small, clean and easy to use tool that shows everything needed very quickly - I like it alot and i've used it countless times in the past. Thank you for the time and work you put into it. :)
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Dr Bernard
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Posted - 2007.07.30 03:03:00 -
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Anyone know what happened to this great tool. The web link no longer works 
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Pan Crastus
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Posted - 2007.08.01 13:30:00 -
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yeah shame...
this is a free post provided to you by a member of the EVE community.
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Ajna Anami
Gallente
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Posted - 2007.08.14 17:20:00 -
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Hey, I've been using this website since I started playing, it's been an awesome resource.
In the past month (?) it has gone offline. Anyone know anything about it?
Any plans to get it up and running again would be appreciated.
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Bolka
Caldari
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Posted - 2007.08.22 13:39:00 -
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What's the best alternative tool?
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Paco Drago
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Posted - 2007.09.13 04:31:00 -
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I have also been missing this site very much since it went down. I hope it gets reincarnated sometime in the near future. In the meantine, does anyone know of a similar site where I can compare different ships' stats on the same page?
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Rainbow Bear
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Posted - 2007.10.25 14:26:00 -
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Unashamed bump, as this was a great little tool and needs replacing asap!
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