Captain Thunk
Sniggerdly
Pandemic Legion
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Posted - 2012.02.24 12:42:00 -
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Change damage to a signed number - weapons do positive damage, repair does negative damage. This gets logis onto mails, but most importantly ranks them as damage dealers are atm.
Add 'extra' bays and the items contained within. Fuel Bays, Ship Mainetenance Hangars, Corporate Hangars. Essentially everything is already in place, mails already show certain containers such as cargo and drones, its just the missing items aren't listed yet.
Timestamps to the second, not rounded down to minute.
X,Y,Z position of victim ship in system. I raised this before sometime between mid 2009 and 2010, it was even raised with the CSM by Mazzilliu. I can't find the thread anymore though I did find a wiki reference: http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Common_API_requests_%28CSM%29
I also found the video Mazzilliu produced to help explain what it is and why it's a good idea: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un6Zm24l3Xo
Most of the work needs to be done by 3rd party devs, but even the lazy ones can cycle through each celestial in a system from mapDenormalize and get the shortest Euclidean metric to see what Celestial the ships are nearest.
Already with the recent API additions for x, y, z positions on assets we can reproduce a POS eg: https://www.pandemic-legion.com/killboard/test.php
And various representations of a system have been available for a while eg: https://www.pandemic-legion.com/killboard/test_new.php?solarID=30001321 (I recommend Chrome or something very fast with JS and canvas)
As some progress with locations has been made with the API, I'm optimistic this may now be added to killmails. Just the victim will do, though it would be nice to have the positions of involved parties too - there will of course be minor things for developers to watch out for. The position of the attacker will either have too be the position he was in when he last struck the victim or the position he was in when the victim exploded. In large fleet fights there could be good reason for this leading to some strange results. (If under fire, the attacker may have warped to save himself so appears 30AU away from what he was shooting, that kind of thing) |