oh wow. you can actually see how many VP are in the system. Very useful if you want to know how much its contested over the 100% mark and the client doesn't tell you

Yeah, no hurry, mate. Enjoy your weekend!

I was simply trying ro fulfill your request "Please help test - Would appreciate you pointing out any problems.". A classic case of "Be careful what you ask for - you might actually get it."

PLEASE add tickers to endpoints which return corporationName or allianceName. It doesn't seem efficient to me that another call to the api is required just to get a 5 character length string that should be given with basic information.

Is it that expensive to send it with the request?

eve/CharacterAffiliation
Added this new endpoint
Takes a comma deliminated list of characterIDs
Returns characterID, characterName, corporationID, corporationName, corporationTicker, allianceID, allianceName, allianceTicker, factionID, factionName

I'm afraid this is going to open the "Bag of Aeolus", as you would have to add the ticker wherever there is a corporationID and AliianceID mentioning in an endpoint.

Hey FoxFour, I was just wondering what you've changed on /eve/CharacterID because on the SISI API, the usual "names=" doesn't work.
WORKS: https://api.eveonline.com/eve/CharacterID.xml.aspx?names=Makari+Aeron
NOPE: https://api.testeveonline.com/eve/CharacterID.xml.aspx?names=Makari+Aeron

Am excited and happy about the FacWarSystems additions, thanks a lot for that !
But do you consider to reduce the cache timers on that api ? It currently is an hour which is too long for that kind of info imo. 10 minutes is the minimum time to complete a fw dungeon so maybe that is a good cache timer on that api ?

ok, i give it a shot then. This use-case would display vulnerable systems flashy red to show a user where fights are likely to happen or for FCs to short-term plan strategies in a bigger picture. For those reasons people want to know whats going on right now.

Given that you can complete many dungeons in 60 minutes to change the situation, revealing the victoryPoints info only really makes it usable tactically if it has a short interval cache.

By the way did you consider adding the level of system upgrades aswell, plus in FacWarStats the state of warzone control?

Hey FoxFour, I was wondering why you include GroupID but not TypeID for eve/OwnerID since any sort of browser bases JavaScript information panel popup requires the TypeID for Character, Corporation, Alliance, or Faction as listed on the official eve wiki. (faction typeID not listed on wiki, but it works anyways). While it's no big deal to convert from GroupID to TypeID, I was first and foremost wondering why there's two identifiers for these entities. If you could include typeID, that would be great. Alternatively, if the IGB group (if there is one) should really consider changing to groupID if this endpoint stays as is.

Can this be done to account/APIKeyInfo ?

Also for account/AccountStatus is it possible to list what character is currently logged in ? Using the API its possible to find out if someone is logged it, but not which character.

Also for corp/CorporationSheet can you have the alliance ticker listed, currently I have to pull the Alliance List daily, which is massive, and I think it would be beneficial to get the alliance ticker from a different source. Also on that note, a way to find out the corporations currently in a specific alliance would be great, instead of having to pull the Alliance List.

Pretty please, could you add groupID to ContactList ? It would avoid having to do 3 billions requests to separate char/corp/ally in the contacts !

Dear CCP FoxFour,

Considering the effort being put into the APIs, I'd like to make a suggestion before they are final.

Since years, the Market History is missing two key informations that every technical analysis (of any kind) trader - including RL traders - needs to work with the markets history.

They are easy to get as well: every market including EvE's have an Open and Close price for each given day.

The Open is the first price that is formed in the day, the close is the last.

Speaking with market orders in mind, the Open could be in example the min(lowest sell order past down time) or

(min(lowest sell order) + max(highest buy order)) / 2

depending on how you calculate the average, min and max.

The Close is the same thing but taken just before the next downtime.


Price to be imported on financial platforms is usually provided as follows:

Date - Time - Open - High - Low - Close - Volume.

and very very rarely and for selected securities that are NOT commodities:

Date - Time - Average - Min - Max - Volume.

Where Min in RL markets could be approximately mapped to "Low" and Max to "High".


The former is how EvE data should be provided and how an API should make it available.

The latter is (more or less) how it's provided now.

This is how a professional trading platform expects to get a price of in example, Nitrogen Isotopes:

2014-02-20,947.39,967.00,941.05,955.37,75794035


This is a CSV format (easily JSON-able) with everything needed:

YYYY-MM-DD, Open, High, Low, Close, Volume

This is also known as "OHLC" or "OHLCV" format by the initials of Open High Low Close (Volume) and this is the standard, not EvE's format. And by consequence, not EvE's REST format.

Until you won't feed this kind of data, all we can do is to show colorful yet mildly useful charts with very obsolete moving averages.

Considering Dr. Ejyo in Fanfest 2013 had shown proper charts with proper data exactly in the format I have described above, I KNOW it's possible to produce it.

I know you FoxFour are probably not involved with these market technicalities at all and your task is just to represent on REST something that is already there.

So I am asking you, is it possible to contact somebody in CCP who could read and understand my post and the financial concepts behind it and eventually consider having a discussion about it?

It's years and years I am truly working hard to promote EvE markets and make them as real as the real thing, this is the last obstacle before this can become true!

Just to let you all guys know, the CharacterSheet cache period has been set to 6 hours.

CCP FoxFour, this should had been set to 1 hour so to be in consistency with the SkillQueue cache period (not to mention that this was the original cache period of the call before it got broken).

responses with ownerGroupID=0

is that a normal fact?

Example:

ID -> Name
https://api.eveonline.com/eve/characterName.xml.aspx?ids=1030463496
row name="doc101" characterID="1030463496"

Name -> Owner
https://api.eveonline.com/eve/ownerID.xml.aspx?names=doc101
row ownerID="0" ownerName="doc101" ownerGroupID="0"


FunFact it's ownerID=0 as well :-) So the characterName/ID API resolves the name in both direction, the ownerID has a problem. i've a couple more of those.

to help you: It's an old and closed corporation which was once part of an alliance (back in 2010)
https://evemaps.dotlan.net/corp/1030463496