Jacus Roden is the new federation president. Not that it concerns me much but it's nice to see fellow scientist taking a lead of a society. Even if he's old fogey.
Should we expect fed navy ships being specialized in missiles now?
12:50
12:35
Lots of Things
While I might seem to be somewhere else, I'm not yet totally lost. Currently it's all planet side bussines and learning some gunnery. Large projectile guns. Gotta love them on my battleships.
The latest CONCORD statement about changing 0.0 systems status seems interesting. The new way of claiming territory leads to control tower and fuels going down in prices. Which could be good if we'd to recover Alamut. Yes, it's not taken down but is offline now as the lab there was used only for copying and that was pretty expensive copier.
But still zeroes. Considering current alliances might free up some unused space, I'm looking forward to venturing to null-sec myself. Again. But this time not as a courier-newbie working for angels.
Speaking of angels – I've got news about them looking for a person to do some speed-run jobs for them. Might be interesting as well to try.
One last thing. I've stumbled upon an ad about some specialized training courses in Deepari academy. Something about advanced warfare and something about exploration. First seems to be fun to learn. Second one .. what if they can tell me somethign I didn't yet know? Still I'm not into those amarrian guys and might look at gallente or minmatar courses.
If only I had more spare time.
The latest CONCORD statement about changing 0.0 systems status seems interesting. The new way of claiming territory leads to control tower and fuels going down in prices. Which could be good if we'd to recover Alamut. Yes, it's not taken down but is offline now as the lab there was used only for copying and that was pretty expensive copier.
But still zeroes. Considering current alliances might free up some unused space, I'm looking forward to venturing to null-sec myself. Again. But this time not as a courier-newbie working for angels.
Speaking of angels – I've got news about them looking for a person to do some speed-run jobs for them. Might be interesting as well to try.
One last thing. I've stumbled upon an ad about some specialized training courses in Deepari academy. Something about advanced warfare and something about exploration. First seems to be fun to learn. Second one .. what if they can tell me somethign I didn't yet know? Still I'm not into those amarrian guys and might look at gallente or minmatar courses.
If only I had more spare time.
20:45
Grandmaster Carebear
Even more planetside time spent. This time it was quite fruitful – I have finally managed acquiring skills to use exhumers. Right now I'm flying my hulk mining stuff and looking awesome.
I'll add a sexy girl picture later. For now it's just sexy mining lasers.
17:52
Planetside Business
I have disappeared recently, that's because of some planetside things to do. Looks like I'll be occupied for about a month more. During that time my uber program will not be updated as well. Still it's currently in rather stable state and I can already use it to track Alamut fuel levels.
The EBank crisis is a hit indeed. I have 2.5 billions frozen in my account. While I'm willing to go and help them fix the current situation, I'm just too busy at the moment. Unfortunately.
No girls this time. Maybe later.
Update: teh girl!
The EBank crisis is a hit indeed. I have 2.5 billions frozen in my account. While I'm willing to go and help them fix the current situation, I'm just too busy at the moment. Unfortunately.
No girls this time. Maybe later.
Update: teh girl!
04:11
Control over Control Towers
After few days of kicking around trying to implement the whole "control tower is an item too" concept, I finally made it yesterday. Some more hacking today, browsing through starbase specs and statistical consumption data and in the end... The picture!
Well.. not exactly. There's no girl in my program yet. But I'm working on it!
06:30
Lost and Found
I spent a lot of time writing my awesome application and in the end I managed to actually query my own asset list. Then I spent some time decoding the data and ... What do I see? Some strange system named Amygnon and a load of minerals there! Here, on the right, marked with a sweet girl.It can't be true I thought. So I get to the NeoCom, open the actual Asset Browser, check for the system Amygnon which I have never heard of.. and here they are. My precious minerals are waiting for me like 20 jumps away.
Autopilot on. Gotta check if I find something else as interesting.
14:18
Amarrian Politics and Something Important
I've found a draft of a post about the not-so-recent-already event in Amarr. Something about Khanid kingdom joining back. Doubt I'll publish it anytime soon if at all.
There's a bit more interesting topic there which affects me and WWES quite a lot – Mexallon prices suddenly went up from about 27-28 to 30-32 or even 34. In just few days. Given that mexallon is widely used in Orca production that will have a great impact on WWES.
And I'm outta mex as well. And I need quite a lot of it to manufacture my t2 stuff.
I could do some research on mex prices, look for a way to get it cheaper, maybe even mine some.... Not gonna happen. And that's another yet more important thing.
I've spent quite a time studying economic, sciences, industrial skills, electronics, engineering.. lots of stuff. I have never (almost never) tried to actually learn combat skills. On one hand that's because I'm avoiding combat. On the other hand that's the reason of me avoiding combat.
No more. Since the invention of neural remapping procedure I was thinking on switching my training focus together with rewiring my brain. And the desired way of rewiring is to get more perceptive and strong-willed.
I'm going to the neural lab today. I'm scheduled for 1 PM. Less then an hour left. Next time I'll post that will be new me. Unless my brain will get on fire of course.
As a part of being used to be strong willed I'll do some push-ups now. 10 would be enough for starters.
Update: Ok, let it be just 5.
There's a bit more interesting topic there which affects me and WWES quite a lot – Mexallon prices suddenly went up from about 27-28 to 30-32 or even 34. In just few days. Given that mexallon is widely used in Orca production that will have a great impact on WWES.
And I'm outta mex as well. And I need quite a lot of it to manufacture my t2 stuff.
I could do some research on mex prices, look for a way to get it cheaper, maybe even mine some.... Not gonna happen. And that's another yet more important thing.
I've spent quite a time studying economic, sciences, industrial skills, electronics, engineering.. lots of stuff. I have never (almost never) tried to actually learn combat skills. On one hand that's because I'm avoiding combat. On the other hand that's the reason of me avoiding combat.
No more. Since the invention of neural remapping procedure I was thinking on switching my training focus together with rewiring my brain. And the desired way of rewiring is to get more perceptive and strong-willed.
I'm going to the neural lab today. I'm scheduled for 1 PM. Less then an hour left. Next time I'll post that will be new me. Unless my brain will get on fire of course.
As a part of being used to be strong willed I'll do some push-ups now. 10 would be enough for starters.
Update: Ok, let it be just 5.
15:53
Arkonor
That was the first time I saw Arkonor with my own eyes.
Following a group of blood raiders I came to a strange cloud in space. At first I didn't see anything but then noticed a glittering light near large asteroid. The glittering was caused by a smaller asteroid and at first I didn't believe the scanner result – it was Arkonor.
Actually it was a Blood Raiders' trap – once I came in a mining vessel they emerged and attempted to destroy my ship. Thanks to Newtonius who managed to kill them.
The boulder was just too small to yield any significant amount of ore. But that's Arkonor after all.
Following a group of blood raiders I came to a strange cloud in space. At first I didn't see anything but then noticed a glittering light near large asteroid. The glittering was caused by a smaller asteroid and at first I didn't believe the scanner result – it was Arkonor.
Actually it was a Blood Raiders' trap – once I came in a mining vessel they emerged and attempted to destroy my ship. Thanks to Newtonius who managed to kill them.
The boulder was just too small to yield any significant amount of ore. But that's Arkonor after all.
16:27
Faction Wars - Again
24.5.111 State Protectorate Nears Total Control of Contested Systems
Indeed, most systems are controlled by Caldari State. While the occupation doesn't seem to be too harsh to locals (unlike Caldari Prime that is), they are still experiencing problems. Like this:
29.5.111 Pend Insurance Issues Earnings Warning
Well... Economy is disrupted. What about those living in occupied systems? As long as they aren't offended by Caldari, living there couldn't be that bad if you have supplies. But you don't...
29.5.111 Miscommunication Leads To Attack On Civilian Convoy
What do I do? I'm not a warrior unfortunately. But I do hope the federation still got some military to fix the problem.
Both Protectorate and Federal Defence Union sources have confirmed that at the time of writing only four systems remain under Federation control in the Placid region, with many anticipating the Protectorate to attain total control inside the next twenty-four to forty-eight hours.
Indeed, most systems are controlled by Caldari State. While the occupation doesn't seem to be too harsh to locals (unlike Caldari Prime that is), they are still experiencing problems. Like this:
29.5.111 Pend Insurance Issues Earnings Warning
The Pend Insurance corporation issued a press statement today warning investors of the firm's upcoming earnings report. The company, which has a successful track record as an insurer and investment brokerage, has recently suffered significant losses and writeoffs due to the continued successes of the Caldari Protectorate in the Essence, Placid, and Verge Vendor regions.Thus economy IS in a bad shape for the federation now. Why? Caldari militia pilots already answered this:
The statement came on the heels of a press release issued by the Bank of Luminaire, a partner of Pend Insurance and one of its major underwriters, stating that the Bank could no longer invest equity in Pend's shares. This lack of an available line of credit with which to operate and make loss payments has put Pend Insurance in a difficult financial position, and some analysts predict bankruptcy on the horizon.
"It appears to me at least the majority of the FDU care for... well, simple killing. Trying to take or defend tactical sites is completely out of question to the majority," said Bloodbird. "The concern for our sovereignty doesn't seem to rank very high..."
Well... Economy is disrupted. What about those living in occupied systems? As long as they aren't offended by Caldari, living there couldn't be that bad if you have supplies. But you don't...
29.5.111 Miscommunication Leads To Attack On Civilian Convoy
A civilian shipping convoy was attacked and destroyed in the Uphallant system yesterday when a patrol fleet belonging to Internal Security, Nugoeihuvi's security arm, engaged the unarmed vessels after what Nugoeihuvi is calling a "miscommunication."What if such "miscommunication" happens every time? Gallente corporations will be forced to leave occupied territories which are much more interesting for Caldari corps then the Black Rise which isn't yet completely explored.
What do I do? I'm not a warrior unfortunately. But I do hope the federation still got some military to fix the problem.
02:24
17:42
How Much for My Minerals?
Few days ago I accidentally stumbled across some papers mentioning mineral prices taken in account several years ago by Roden Shipyards:
Of course, these prices are totally different from what we have on markets now. Here's the approximate list of what you can get (or pay) in Amarr:
Quite a drastic change. Why could they happen?
Tritanium is most needed. That's obvious. A bit less obvious is the fact that its supply is limited by number of high-sec systems close to trading hubs. Every single asteroid in these systems is probably mined out. Noone wants to mine Veldspar in low-sec systems. On the other hand, there are large alliances paing lots for the tritanium. They can provide enough high-end minerals for their needs but the basic tritanium is still needed. That's why high prices.
Pyerite .. is a subproduct of mining tritanium. Miners who clean out high-sec fields will mine scordite for tritanium too. But since they're getting pyerite from this, they're selling it. Selling it low.
Mexallon seems to be the only balanced mineral. Interesting.
Isogen is subproduct of mining omber. It gives quite a good profit to a miner so lots of novice miners will hunt for omber.
Nocxium is like pyerite a subproduct of mining high-sec ores too. Pyroxeres and plagioclase are mined out in a same way as scordite. Of course, mining low-sec ores in order to get some zydrine yields noxcium as well.
Zydrine costs about as much as it should. A bit cheaper then expected and the reason are null-sec alliances. These are getting lots of isk from high-end minerals to be able to buy lots of tritanium for their capital ships.
If you need zydrine you need about as much megacyte. And for null-sec miners it seems even more profitable. That's why market is filled with cheap megacyte.
Morphite.... As far as I know, main source of it are drones. Not much people are actually mining mercoxite – arkonor would be easier to find and more profitable. Morphite consumption is quite low compared to other minerals – it isn't used in capital ship production. That's why low price.
Looking at mineral cost of some huge ship using old and new prices result may seem strange at first – price is about the same. While at the first glance one can see a strong price growth of tritanium, the base material, low prices for high-end minerals don't actually affect the final cost too much. But low prices for "mid-end" minerals do.
Calculating these costs by hand won't help. Some material cost analyzing tool would be handy here.
Yeah, my uber manufacturing software.
Tritanium 2.0 Pyerite 8.0 Mexallon 32.0 Isogen 128.0 Nocxium 512.0 Zydrine 2048.0 Megacyte 8192.0 Morphite 32768.0
Of course, these prices are totally different from what we have on markets now. Here's the approximate list of what you can get (or pay) in Amarr:
Tritanium 4.0 to 4.3 Pyerite 4.0 to 4.5 Mexallon 33 to 35 Isogen 57 to 63 Nocxium 79 to 90 (!) Zydrine 1750 to 1900 Megacyte 4000 to 4500 Morphite 8000 to 9000
Quite a drastic change. Why could they happen?
Tritanium is most needed. That's obvious. A bit less obvious is the fact that its supply is limited by number of high-sec systems close to trading hubs. Every single asteroid in these systems is probably mined out. Noone wants to mine Veldspar in low-sec systems. On the other hand, there are large alliances paing lots for the tritanium. They can provide enough high-end minerals for their needs but the basic tritanium is still needed. That's why high prices.
Pyerite .. is a subproduct of mining tritanium. Miners who clean out high-sec fields will mine scordite for tritanium too. But since they're getting pyerite from this, they're selling it. Selling it low.
Mexallon seems to be the only balanced mineral. Interesting.
Isogen is subproduct of mining omber. It gives quite a good profit to a miner so lots of novice miners will hunt for omber.
Nocxium is like pyerite a subproduct of mining high-sec ores too. Pyroxeres and plagioclase are mined out in a same way as scordite. Of course, mining low-sec ores in order to get some zydrine yields noxcium as well.
Zydrine costs about as much as it should. A bit cheaper then expected and the reason are null-sec alliances. These are getting lots of isk from high-end minerals to be able to buy lots of tritanium for their capital ships.
If you need zydrine you need about as much megacyte. And for null-sec miners it seems even more profitable. That's why market is filled with cheap megacyte.
Morphite.... As far as I know, main source of it are drones. Not much people are actually mining mercoxite – arkonor would be easier to find and more profitable. Morphite consumption is quite low compared to other minerals – it isn't used in capital ship production. That's why low price.
Looking at mineral cost of some huge ship using old and new prices result may seem strange at first – price is about the same. While at the first glance one can see a strong price growth of tritanium, the base material, low prices for high-end minerals don't actually affect the final cost too much. But low prices for "mid-end" minerals do.
Calculating these costs by hand won't help. Some material cost analyzing tool would be handy here.
Yeah, my uber manufacturing software.
17:39
Old Times, Learning Curves
I should keep closer to the University for sure. Yeah, I'm still officially doing some scientific work and stuff but I keep disconnecting. Some pals who were attending the same courses as me, whom I met just about .. couple months ago? are now full-fledged teachers. I was surprised to know that the division I'm filed under has changed its name! And I was told it was nearly a year ago!
16:09
Capital Ships and 90/10 Principle
Several months ago we started a project to build a Moros for one of our corpmates. He provided around 70% of the needed materials (cost-wise, we had to buy some high-end ones). We acquired all the needed blueprints, we built all the components and then .. Yeah, that's the problem: You can't assemble a dreadnought in a high-security Empire space. Some shitty government laws.
We knew about that and we had the following plan: Build components, load them into freighter and then move them to a low-sec system and assemble there. We even decided to assemble the stuff in .. was it Artoun? Something like that. Oh, and we were so happy about our Capital Ship Manufacturing we even decided to build a Revelation.
Our first mistake: Components take a lot more space then minerals. It takes me 3 runs to bring all the components and there are still few parts left. Our second mistake: No one wants to be a scout or even to convoy a freighter.
And then WWES started to fade and those capital parts and blueprints and minerals were forgotten. If not me, no one will do it. So I spent some time hauling it all to another spot where, I thought, it would be easier to reach somewhat safe low-sec. I even made one trip into low-sec. And in several days another one. Then some troubles began – evil pirates appeared in that semi-safe low-sec. It took a couple more months till the situation became better and few days ago I made two more trips. I carried the last set of Moros parts and all the minerals for Revelation we collected so far (yeah, we do need more).
Yesterday I finished another round of T2 armor hardeners and contacted Impro engineers in Teshkat. Moros construction has began!
Too bad Spublofe wasn't online for more then a month. If he doesn't want that Moros anymore, I'll sell it. Same about Revelation.
We knew about that and we had the following plan: Build components, load them into freighter and then move them to a low-sec system and assemble there. We even decided to assemble the stuff in .. was it Artoun? Something like that. Oh, and we were so happy about our Capital Ship Manufacturing we even decided to build a Revelation.
Our first mistake: Components take a lot more space then minerals. It takes me 3 runs to bring all the components and there are still few parts left. Our second mistake: No one wants to be a scout or even to convoy a freighter.
And then WWES started to fade and those capital parts and blueprints and minerals were forgotten. If not me, no one will do it. So I spent some time hauling it all to another spot where, I thought, it would be easier to reach somewhat safe low-sec. I even made one trip into low-sec. And in several days another one. Then some troubles began – evil pirates appeared in that semi-safe low-sec. It took a couple more months till the situation became better and few days ago I made two more trips. I carried the last set of Moros parts and all the minerals for Revelation we collected so far (yeah, we do need more).
Yesterday I finished another round of T2 armor hardeners and contacted Impro engineers in Teshkat. Moros construction has began!
Too bad Spublofe wasn't online for more then a month. If he doesn't want that Moros anymore, I'll sell it. Same about Revelation.
22:05
Uncharted Spaces, Unseen Phenomenae
Spent more time playing with scanners and finally ventured into a wormhole located in Nafomeh system. Some would just dive into fighting those unknown inhabitants of the uncharted space, I was instead surprised with the spatial effect which immediately affected my ship. Luckily, no vital changes, ship systems kept working properly — shield, propulsion, life support.
The source of the effect was found immediately — local sun wasn't the only source of radiation in the system. A large rift looking similar to Eve Gate was shining bright on the sky. But even more interesting was some blueish thingie in the same quadrant. Don't have a single idea of what it might be.
I have reported my data to other capsuleers when I left the system (wormhole was quite stable, I went through it 4 times in my Hurricane total and it wasn't seemingly disrupted by it). While the true answer is yet to come, there were some speculations that the stellar object I saw is the source of the spatial effect that hit me, and that it probably affected my shields subsytem in some way.
One more thing: On-board scanner revealed a starbase installed in the system. Not the local technology, but our gallentean starbase complete with ship maintenance array and ammo assembly array. So we might either expect some data on the phenomena assuming this lab is there for research, or expect nothing if the owner is secretive enough.
11:12
Lost in Uncharted Space
Yesterday I hopped into my Cheetah and went looking for wormholes. This was quite an adventure especially when the the wormhole collapsed after Kuno's megathron and I had to find a new way out. Finding a deadspace signature isn't hard. Finding a wormhole among two dozens of signatures is. I was lucky to find me a way out in just a couple of hours. And the exit led back to high-sec amarrian space.
Mr Smith haven't contacted me again and I might know a reason for this – on-board computer automatically identifies unique locus signature for each system and does it in deterministic way so every W-space traveller sees the same locus signature for a given system. No need to identify a system by star spectral class or planet mass.
Mr Smith haven't contacted me again and I might know a reason for this – on-board computer automatically identifies unique locus signature for each system and does it in deterministic way so every W-space traveller sees the same locus signature for a given system. No need to identify a system by star spectral class or planet mass.
11:50
2 + 2
Those chicks I booted yesterday came back with some gorilla-like guys. Those basically blocked my door and I couldn't leave my apartments for a full day. Eventually they got bored and left but I had to sit here unable to go to space.
So I turned back to mr Smith's program and finaly made something for him. Then I turned on news channel and all I had to do is to add 2 and 2. Of course he doesn't need that database to identify known space, he wants to build a database of uncharted systems!
Knowing star spectral class, it's temperature and number of planets in the system allows us to almost certainly identify a system. Maybe some addtitional info like star luminosity, age and mass will help here.
My shipment of Deep Space Probes is on the way. Uncharted space, here I come!
So I turned back to mr Smith's program and finaly made something for him. Then I turned on news channel and all I had to do is to add 2 and 2. Of course he doesn't need that database to identify known space, he wants to build a database of uncharted systems!
Knowing star spectral class, it's temperature and number of planets in the system allows us to almost certainly identify a system. Maybe some addtitional info like star luminosity, age and mass will help here.
My shipment of Deep Space Probes is on the way. Uncharted space, here I come!
18:30
Apocrypha
Just turned off Scope channel. Incredible. Whatever those wormholes reported by SoE are I should definitely look at it.
11:23
Back to Programming
Last night I was relaxing after a hard week when my NeoCom started beeping like crazy – someone wanted to chat with me. Not that some beeping can distract me from relaxing but this guy was too persistent and my ears can't take 2 minutes of constant beeping. So I asked girls to rest a bit, took on my gown and went to the communicator. Of course, it wasn't hot girl but some old geezer in a gray suit. Who immediately demanded me to turn on secure transmission and to ask everyone to leave. This sounded a bit too serious so I asked girls to get out (pushed them out with all their raggery – who said I'm a gentleman?) and turned back to the screen.
The guy was there waiting for me with the same facial expression. First he said that he knows that I was using DED databases to aquire some data on stellar maps. Next he said that I'm building some software. And then he proposed me to make him a database of some sort. Since I was just grasping my senses, I didn't have much to object to this and asked him to give me details and since it was all recorded, went to get a cup of coffee while he was mumbling. When I returned, communication was closed.
I looked at recording and it seems the guy just sent me it in text. Blah. He wants me to write a solar system database allowing to identify a solar system by it's star (star type, spectral class, temperature etc.) and planets (number of planets, size, mass) and if that's not enough, moons. Not too hard.
I looked at recording several times trying to get some additional things I need to know. First: The guy's name is mr. Smith. Surprize! Second: He's going to contact me later about the result and payment. What? Where did my mind go? I didn't ask about payment in advance?
So I'm sitting, looking at the screen and several thoughts bother me. Why would someone need a program liek this if every ship's on-board computer can easily tell you system name using global coordinates?
One more thing. Some say you can't send scent through FTL comms. This guy smells SoE.
The guy was there waiting for me with the same facial expression. First he said that he knows that I was using DED databases to aquire some data on stellar maps. Next he said that I'm building some software. And then he proposed me to make him a database of some sort. Since I was just grasping my senses, I didn't have much to object to this and asked him to give me details and since it was all recorded, went to get a cup of coffee while he was mumbling. When I returned, communication was closed.
I looked at recording and it seems the guy just sent me it in text. Blah. He wants me to write a solar system database allowing to identify a solar system by it's star (star type, spectral class, temperature etc.) and planets (number of planets, size, mass) and if that's not enough, moons. Not too hard.
I looked at recording several times trying to get some additional things I need to know. First: The guy's name is mr. Smith. Surprize! Second: He's going to contact me later about the result and payment. What? Where did my mind go? I didn't ask about payment in advance?
So I'm sitting, looking at the screen and several thoughts bother me. Why would someone need a program liek this if every ship's on-board computer can easily tell you system name using global coordinates?
One more thing. Some say you can't send scent through FTL comms. This guy smells SoE.
11:10
Pod Pilots Shoot, Economy Grows
6.3.111 Lai Dai, Others Announce Black Rise Plans
There were tons of battle reports coming from either Heydieles or nearby systems. Not gonna search through archives now. And every time I saw the system name I felt pain. Because Duvolle labs in Heydieles is where I have started my scientific career. My first work after I left the University.
So what does it mean? Caldari corporations are going to expand at the cost of Gallente suffering? That's not the way I'd love it to see.
Current null-sec space is occuppied with pod pilot alliances and pirate factions. I bet empires can fight any of those if they want. Which one first?
My vote: Get some ships and beat those Sansha and Blood Raiders.
Following the recent move by Kaalakiota Corporation, other major players in the Caldari State have stated their plans for the expansion into the Black Rise region.They mention FW successes that make Black Rise a safe place for expansion. But what happens on the other side of the war? And that other side is the low-sec Essence. And the Heydieles system among others.
Yesterday Lai Dai Corporation announced that its board of directors will consider moving a number of facilities to Black Rise.<...>
Other Caldari corporations have also declared similar plans.
There were tons of battle reports coming from either Heydieles or nearby systems. Not gonna search through archives now. And every time I saw the system name I felt pain. Because Duvolle labs in Heydieles is where I have started my scientific career. My first work after I left the University.
So what does it mean? Caldari corporations are going to expand at the cost of Gallente suffering? That's not the way I'd love it to see.
Current null-sec space is occuppied with pod pilot alliances and pirate factions. I bet empires can fight any of those if they want. Which one first?
My vote: Get some ships and beat those Sansha and Blood Raiders.
11:18
Moon Mining and Moon Materials
4.3.111 Kaalakiota Unveils Black Rise Survey Program
8.10.110 Minmatar Mining Industry Expands to New Frontiers
We've been trying to start Golem manufacturing. The total price of ferrogel used in its production is around 400 millions. Nearly half of the market price of the ship.
Rare moon materials are controlled by pod pilots and Empire leaders know this. And while they cannot overthrow alliance monopoly on Dysprosium-based materials, they can mine lower-end minerals in abundance and using the so-called Alchemy reactions they still can produce ferrogel and other stuff. And they have much more processing power then your usual pod pilot alliance.
So we're going to witness a major change in T2 market. Assuming this is not just a political move.
Too bad I don't have any contacts within Kaa. Lab in Ishukone, research in Lai Dai. Kaa – nothing. Still gotta visit Kokanogi. At least he resides in Nonni and could have heard some local news. Unlikely though – he's scientist after all.
I highlighted the word "moons". I remember seeing something like this before. Digging through news archive I found this:<...> the program will be conducted by both the corporation's intelligence division and the Home Guard, the goal being the development of a comprehensive resource database of the Black Rise region. The program will survey the planets and moons across 49 systems in 6 constellations.
8.10.110 Minmatar Mining Industry Expands to New Frontiers
So... On-site moon mining? Imperial moon mining, not handled by pod pilots? Are we going to ever see moon materials in abundance and not controlled by pod pilot alliances? These changes might strongly affect the current T2 market.HEXAG has confirmed that a moon will be the target for the new venture, with bulk extraction of minerals not readily accessible through orbital mining techniques the primary goal.
We've been trying to start Golem manufacturing. The total price of ferrogel used in its production is around 400 millions. Nearly half of the market price of the ship.
Rare moon materials are controlled by pod pilots and Empire leaders know this. And while they cannot overthrow alliance monopoly on Dysprosium-based materials, they can mine lower-end minerals in abundance and using the so-called Alchemy reactions they still can produce ferrogel and other stuff. And they have much more processing power then your usual pod pilot alliance.
So we're going to witness a major change in T2 market. Assuming this is not just a political move.
Too bad I don't have any contacts within Kaa. Lab in Ishukone, research in Lai Dai. Kaa – nothing. Still gotta visit Kokanogi. At least he resides in Nonni and could have heard some local news. Unlikely though – he's scientist after all.
11:41
Distributed Repositories, Automated Assembling
Having a single working box is good. Having several working box having access to GalNet is better. As long as you don't have to share your work between those. Otherwise it's a pain to keep all your versions synchronized. Added a fix while sitting in a station working with my stationary PC, forgot to transfer it onto on-board computer in my prowler, made a workaround there, had to re-implement it here... Even worse than T2 manufacturing.
Ok, here comes distributed version control system. I have a working copy (or several) on different machines and can push all the changes to a single public repository. Good. Now split all the code into subprojects... Not so good anymore. Finally made a super-project for managing all the submodules. Spent a few days writing scripts for syncing, deployment and managing. The work is still far from completion and that's not exactly what I was doing in the beginning. Scripting instead of coding. Meh.
And it still doesn't save me from forgetting to add a new file to the repository. Good that it was just 3 or 4 lines of code.
Ok, here comes distributed version control system. I have a working copy (or several) on different machines and can push all the changes to a single public repository. Good. Now split all the code into subprojects... Not so good anymore. Finally made a super-project for managing all the submodules. Spent a few days writing scripts for syncing, deployment and managing. The work is still far from completion and that's not exactly what I was doing in the beginning. Scripting instead of coding. Meh.
And it still doesn't save me from forgetting to add a new file to the repository. Good that it was just 3 or 4 lines of code.
10:51
Something That Works
Not "Hello, world" though.
I'm not just manufacturer, I'm a trader also. So I'm hanging sometimes with other traders. One of them asked if someone could make him a program allowing to see all the market buy orders in a given region for a given item. Most importantly he needed a way to see the highest buy order in for each system. And some kind of map. So I thought that it might be a good exerсise for me. Not asset management but I want my Uber-Program to help me with market trading too. So I agreed to try to make that one.
So what did I need? A way to access market data and some kind of regional map. For the latter one I downloaded DED database dump (nothing illegal there, it's distributed openly), extracted the data related to region maps from it and that's all.
Market data is a bit harder. Customer asked me to use market data exports instead of Eve-Central data. These exports are just chunks of raw text - NeoCom should really be fixed here - so I needed a way to parse them.
Finally I need a way to draw a map. About a year ago I tried to do one using GraphViz. Then I found Ombey's maps and forgot about my attempt. This time I though "Hey, I can just extract region map data, form it into dot-file and then feed to GraphViz". That worked. But that's a bit too ugly to use. I contacted Ombey about his maps.. He didn't give me his raw data and it's quite understandable. Thus it will be my ugly auto-generated maps. At least for now.
Some coding... Some hacking... Some coding again.. Lots of reading. And when I was satisfied with results I sent it to customer. And even got some payment already. This is not yet a final result but still a good start.
And I also should spend some more time syncing data between my workspaces.
I'm not just manufacturer, I'm a trader also. So I'm hanging sometimes with other traders. One of them asked if someone could make him a program allowing to see all the market buy orders in a given region for a given item. Most importantly he needed a way to see the highest buy order in for each system. And some kind of map. So I thought that it might be a good exerсise for me. Not asset management but I want my Uber-Program to help me with market trading too. So I agreed to try to make that one.
So what did I need? A way to access market data and some kind of regional map. For the latter one I downloaded DED database dump (nothing illegal there, it's distributed openly), extracted the data related to region maps from it and that's all.
Market data is a bit harder. Customer asked me to use market data exports instead of Eve-Central data. These exports are just chunks of raw text - NeoCom should really be fixed here - so I needed a way to parse them.
Finally I need a way to draw a map. About a year ago I tried to do one using GraphViz. Then I found Ombey's maps and forgot about my attempt. This time I though "Hey, I can just extract region map data, form it into dot-file and then feed to GraphViz". That worked. But that's a bit too ugly to use. I contacted Ombey about his maps.. He didn't give me his raw data and it's quite understandable. Thus it will be my ugly auto-generated maps. At least for now.
Some coding... Some hacking... Some coding again.. Lots of reading. And when I was satisfied with results I sent it to customer. And even got some payment already. This is not yet a final result but still a good start.
And I also should spend some more time syncing data between my workspaces.
11:56
First Steps
Versatility is good. But versatile skills lead to having to make decisions. And the decision I have to make now is bugging me for some time already: Which technology will I use for my Uber-Asset-Management-Software?
The Inner Voice suggests using XPCOM. And I have several reasons to agree with it. First, there are tons of manuals; second, I do have some experience with it; third, it's my Inner Voice after all.
And with all these manuals and features of XPCOM I might have some results really soon. I guess, "Hello, world" will be enough for starters.
- it will be tightly coupled with GalNet;
- it has to work properly on all systems (not "Amarr box only" or "Anything but Matari");
- it has to be easily expandable.
The Inner Voice suggests using XPCOM. And I have several reasons to agree with it. First, there are tons of manuals; second, I do have some experience with it; third, it's my Inner Voice after all.
And with all these manuals and features of XPCOM I might have some results really soon. I guess, "Hello, world" will be enough for starters.
23:22
Managing My Assets
This manufacturing and research becomes really complex. I have to keep the track of all my bluerptints and datacores and materials and minerals and tons of other things. Either I give up and stop building and selling the stuff or ...
Years of learning Computer Science back in University of Caille gave me a lot of useful skills. Hacking through R&D databases is what I'm using daily. But there are more creative uses to those skills than just hacking. So I've got some manuals on asset management software, NeoCom API and other stuff and maybe one day I'll create something to aid in my daily job.
And maybe that piece of software will also be useful for Calm River who is struggling to keep the lab online.
Years of learning Computer Science back in University of Caille gave me a lot of useful skills. Hacking through R&D databases is what I'm using daily. But there are more creative uses to those skills than just hacking. So I've got some manuals on asset management software, NeoCom API and other stuff and maybe one day I'll create something to aid in my daily job.
And maybe that piece of software will also be useful for Calm River who is struggling to keep the lab online.
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