Blog Posts

market.fuzzwork.co.uk

With the introduction (a wee while ago) of the new eve market data endpoint, and the problems which surfaced at Eve Central while that was happening, I decided to create my own market data website. And so, I present market.fuzzwork.co.uk I posted it was out a few days ago, but thought I should write a […] Read more

New SDE Migration process

CCP Tellus is a wonderful person. Until recently, the SDE (Static Data Extract) was a mix of YAML, an MS SQL server backup, and an SQLite Database for universe data. This was a bit of a pain to convert, with a whole bunch of steps. Now, the SDE is being provided as a bunch of […] Read more

CSM: Tinfoil time with Uncle Steve

This is pure tinfoil, with no real substance. Now, if I were a ruthless space dictator, lording it over many people, and I had a somewhat paranoid streak (as ruthless space dictators are want to have), I'd want to make sure that people voted the way I told them to. And have a way of […] Read more

Using Crest with Excel: Crest Strikes Back

If you've read my older post on it, using Crest with Excel can be a complete pain in the ass. You have to load in a module, then write something in VBA, using it, because VBA doesn't support json natively, and doing it with a user defined function, well, I never got that far, before […] Read more

Solving the WarDec 'problem'

I've made no effort to hide the fact that I think that WarDecs need work. That they're inherently lopsided. That said, I don't want to get rid of them. That would make highsec far too safe. People could anchor things with pretty much no chance of losing them. I've been kicking round a few ideas […] Read more

Summer Summit – Day 4

The final stretch. This has been a long week, and a draining one at that. It's been pretty good, but if it went on longer, I'd probably end up breaking one of the windows to let some cold air into the room. (10 CSM, 2 Community Devs, + Devs from meetings. And the lights. it […] Read more

Summer Summit – Day 3

So hungry. I may need to eat one of the other CSM members. It's been a fairly long, but productive and interesting day. QA team session EVE Metrics / In-game economy Launcher / download on demand Structures EVE Store Art session UI session Fanfest QA Team Session The day started with a huge Scotsman, with […] Read more

Summer Summit - Day 2

Roadmap review with EP Player acquisition strategies and data Little things session Nullsec general session Customer Support Team Purpose of the Council Individuality vs uniformity Take a look at the list of topics there. Take a wild guess of which letters you might be seeing in the minutes. That isn't the order the meetings happened […] Read more

Summer Summit - Day 1

As some of you might well be unsurprised to hear, just from the topic list for today , this is going to be very light on details. Because a great deal of this will fall under the NDA. I'm hopeful that you'll hear about it all fairly soon, but there's some potentially contentious stuff in […] Read more

CSM X Ballot

I really should post here more. But you know how it is, when you don't have anything in particular to say. Anyhoo, The election is here, and I thought it would be worth name checking a few people who you should consider having on your ballot. Of course, the first person should be me, Steve […] Read more