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Paladin Imperium
Curatores Veritatis Alliance
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Posted - 2008.11.30 23:48:00 -
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What is there in the way of API for dealing with POS? Is it possible to extract info about various POS modules?
Ideally I'd like to know of a way to tell every time someone uses a jump bridge, ideally who, and what they jumped with / how much fuel they used. This could be made into a neat app to then fairly charge different corps depending on their JB useage
This would be as opposed to messing with people putting their own fuel in pay-as-you-go style and all the problems it causes with when people don't add, but just take from the system, or when non-alliance blues need to use the JB
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Dragonaire
Caldari
Corax.
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Posted - 2008.12.01 00:27:00 -
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Edited by: Dragonaire on 01/12/2008 00:32:31
Is there information about POSes in the API? Yes
Can you get any of the information you want from it? No
If you have more than one POS in the same system you can't even tell from the API which modules belong to which towers and there's nothing to tell you if a module is on-line or just anchor so finding out who used it is just a nice dream.
Is any of this likely to change anytime soon? No
Because of the way they do POSes in Eve they can't even make the information about which modules go with which POS available and they don't seem to think there's going to be anyway they can change it to even make that available.
A possible work around would be to have an anchored logging can near POS with fuel in it but no password or a shared password and use the new ContainerLog API to access who takes or adds fuel to it. That's assuming that it also does logs for containers in space and not just the ones made to be used in stations. I've not done any testing with that API yet to know even if they do include the information you'd need.
POSes were a later add-on to Eve and it shows in many ways both in-game and out when dealing with them.
Best source of API information can be found at EVEDev and it seems no one has got around to writing up info on the ContainerLog yet since CCP was having some problems at first getting it to work but that should have been fixed by now I have thought.
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LymeM
Ars ex Discordia
GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2008.12.01 07:39:00 -
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If CCP simply added the coordinates in space where the things were anchored, that would be enough for me.
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Dragonaire
Caldari
Corax.
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Posted - 2008.12.01 11:05:00 -
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Edited by: Dragonaire on 01/12/2008 11:06:09
Since the modules are part of the AssetList API adding coordinates would require change AssetList which is unlikely to be done. There is a locationID field in it though that now just reports the systemID for modules which could be changed to report the MoonID instead and make it possible to link them then with the moonID from StarbaseList and that wouldn't require any API changes.
An added bonus would be if the anchored containers would also report nearest celestial object so you can tell mining op/belt ratting vs others positions at moons/planets/star |
steveid
Killed In Action
Zenith Affinity
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Posted - 2008.12.03 20:49:00 -
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what about if they had a time when the module was anchored as a factor. that would allow you to see which ar which provided you put up pos 1 at a time in system.
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Dragonaire
Caldari
Corax.
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Posted - 2008.12.03 22:10:00 -
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Might be nice but since it would require changing the AssetList API also and require them to be recording every time you split a stack of ammo in a hanger I don't see that happening either. Just to make it clear POS modules aren't in their own API or in the API with the towers they are include along with all the stuff in your corp hangers and the delivery hangers for all the stations where you have stuff. The only way to tell that the modules aren't just sitting in a hanger somewhere is they have a locationID for the solar system they are deployed in instead of a corporation hanger ID in a station. Turrets and other stuff that have storage look just like a container and have they're ammo nested inside them for example. There's nothing to really tell them from a container or hanger other than by their typeID which tells you they are something else.
Also the API servers don't have full access to all the database servers in the eve cluster so part of the limits with what can and can't but done by them come from that. If they did then we could get a lot of other info and maybe have some more APIs that people have asked for but I don't see them making many changes along those lines because of server load and DB security issues. They already prevent much more access to stuff than any other on-line game I know of.
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