Verite Rendition
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Posted - 2015.05.09 00:56:35 -
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Philip Ogtaulmolfi wrote:
Free intel through CREST: IMHO there is to much free intel in the game, and this is too much. For a small entity to have an opportunity stealth is a must and this ruins it.
Make it so that you get sovereignity intel trough CREST, but it is only updated after a member of your alliance visits the system. And for bragging rights, make it optional for an alliance to make the information public.
Just a quick point of semi-clarification:
Wollari and I went to CCP and asked that the information in the sovereignty dashboard be made available via the API, as much as is realistically possible. CCP's policy on the map APIs has generally been that anything that's available via the in-game map (that is, anything you can see by pressing F10) should be available via the API as well. So ideally, all of the information in the public dashboard (Show Info), that you don't have to visit a system to collect, will be available.
http://cdn1.eveonline.com/www/newssystem/media/67186/1/ShowInfo.png
And just to be clear, that's somewhat different from the alliance dashboard, which is only accessible to system owners.
http://cdn1.eveonline.com/www/newssystem/media/67186/1/SovDashboard.png
Ultimately we need much of this information for the influence map and for DOTLAN, as ownership of the 3 sov structures has replaced de-jure sovereignty for control of a system. If someone has a station an IHub, for example, but never puts up a TCU, then they do not have proclaimed sovereignty, but they most certainly have control.
In any case, if CCP is exposing too much information via the map, then that may be a discussion that needs to be held. But in our case we only want the information that's public anyhow. And even then, what we're really after is the system indexes and information about who owns the sovereignty structures in each system. Anything beyond that (RF status, timers, etc) is not quite as important to us; I'm not even sure if we'd have a use for it (but I imagine other API users might). |