More Apocrypha Goodness

OMG!

Halada's Mining Guide is what got me going when I first started EVE. And I would bet a lot of ISK this is true for a lot of people.

He will be releasing version 3.0 the same day Apocrypha goes out. He is extending the guide to encompass Industry as well.

The guide will cover the following topics:

INTRODUCTION
Starting out
Attributes
Choosing a career

MINING
All from version 2.0 +
Orca+Rorqual Strategic uses

MANUFACTURING
Basics
ME/PE
Tech 1
Tech 2
Tech 3*
Drugs
Capital Ships
Supercaps (sorting logistics, securing exchange, maximize security)

RESEARCH
Basics
Labs
Copying
Researching (Perfect ME, etc.heyim)
BPO/BPC

INVENTION
Basics
TBA

STARBASES
Basics
Moon Mining & Reactions
POS Manufacturing
Tower Setups (Deathstar, Staging, etc)
Sovereignty
Tips (how to fuel, how to setup, tools, etc.)

OUTPOSTS
Basics
Upgrades (refinery and factory, worth upgrading?)
Logistics
How to maximize efficiency (upgrade vs extra factory?)
Deep Space Manufacturing (mineral compression)

MARKET & TRADING
IPO & Investments
Mineral Trading
Courier Contracts
General Trading

EXPLORATION
Probing
Wormholes*
WH Space Deployment*

RESOURCES
Tools
Links

CREDITS
Credits
Thanks

*marked content will be released 30 days after release in a new
revision

Something Old, Something New...

Eternity II

I posted something about the Eternity II puzzle a while back. This puzzle still has not been solved (and I kind of doubt it will be, at least not without a lot of hints).

Over the past few weekends I have been revisiting my solver code and seeing what improvements I could make. It's been amazing! I've had new ideas and new approaches to take. All in all I've sped my solver up by 250%.

I run my solver in idle processing mode (so it doesn't interfere with my gaming). My old solver would get around 10 million placements a second. My new one gets 25 million. When I compile it for pure speed (i.e. no pretty pictures of its current state and a bump of processor priority) I'm closer to 30 million. And that number is per core!

EVE Blue

In my last post I mentioned I've been working on my own Industry program for EVE. This has been progressing rather well. I've named it simply Blue (for blueprint).

I've pulled and integrated the last EVE data dump. My character editor will download character stats with EVE API. I've also got integration to EVE Central.

After combining all this information and also information on station pricing (i.e. manufacturing, research) I can generate an array of reporting. For one of my reports I feed it a character and a fictitious ML and PL, and it gives me numbers on what blueprints may be worth buying for a particular region. Of course all this information needs to be taken with a grain of salt and researched in game before any action taken.

Here is a picture of my report here but I can't get blogger to show it full size... you will need to click it to read it proper.



I need to integrate sales volume from the market window into this program somehow too. This would give me more accurate data.

Geeking Out

Had a great EVE weekend! My wife let me geek out pretty much all day Saturday. Did a lot of mining and catching up from my hiatus the last few weeks.

Spent most of the morning mining. I replenished the stock of most all my minerals and sold what I had excess of. Tritanium is going for the highest I have ever seen it so I concentrated a lot of effort here. Made a small bundle but it was short lived.

I spent the afternoon identifying BPO's worth purchasing. So I bought about half a dozen BPO's in the late afternoon. ISK is easy come easy go I suppose... Threw most of the BPO's into ME research and then threw some of my older BPO's, which have already have ME, into PE research. I wish the ME research queues were as short at the PE ones. I've been wanting to get PE research done on my older BPO's for some time, it was nice to finally start this process.

Now I have a conflict though. As I mentioned a few days back I am less than a month from flying a Hulk so I really need to start saving for that. There are also some some expensive skill books I will be needing to buy here in a few weeks. I probably should not be spending the ISK like I did this weekend. But you need to spend ISK to make ISK.