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[[File:MarketUploaderWindow.png|200px|thumb|right|EVE-Central Market Uploader]]

The first thing you should do in order to take advantage of EVE-Central is to install the free [http://eve-central.com/~~home~~/~~software.html~~ market data uploader client] called Contribtastic! This program runs in the background while you play and scrapes market data out of the game's cache, uploading it into the EVE-Central database. As of version 2.0.2 (October, 2011), Contribtastic! is only available for Windows machines. You can technically use EVE-Central without using (or even installing) the market data uploader, but you will be somewhat at the mercy of the "freshness" of the EVE-Central database. By seeding the database with local data from the system you start in (as outlined below), your odds of encountering out-of-date market information go down dramatically. When you run Contribtastic!, you'll need to make sure the cache folder location is set properly (sometimes it resets for no reason). To change the cache folder, go to the File menu and select ''Locate cache folder.'' You want to select:

The first thing you should do in order to take advantage of EVE-Central is to install the free [http://dev.eve-central.com/contribtastic/start market data uploader client] called Contribtastic! This program runs in the background while you play and scrapes market data out of the game's cache, uploading it into the EVE-Central database. As of version 2.0.2 (October, 2011), Contribtastic! is only available for Windows machines. You can technically use EVE-Central without using (or even installing) the market data uploader, but you will be somewhat at the mercy of the "freshness" of the EVE-Central database. By seeding the database with local data from the system you start in (as outlined below), your odds of encountering out-of-date market information go down dramatically. When you run Contribtastic!, you'll need to make sure the cache folder location is set properly (sometimes it resets for no reason). To change the cache folder, go to the File menu and select ''Locate cache folder.'' You want to select:

C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Local\CCP\EVE\c_program_files_(x86)_ccp_eve_tranquility\cache\MachoNet\87.237.38.200\<3xx>\CachedMethodCalls\

<UserName> is the username of the currently logged-in user on the computer. For the directory marked <3xx> above, there will be several folders with three digit numbers starting with a 3 inside ...\87.237.38.200\, you want the highest numbered one.

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 [[File:MarketUploaderWindow.png|200px|thumb|right|EVE-Central Market Uploader]]
-The first thing you should do in order to take advantage of EVE-Central is to install the free [http://eve-central.com/home/software.html market data uploader client] called Contribtastic!  This program runs in the background while you play and scrapes market data out of the game's cache, uploading it into the EVE-Central database.  As of version 2.0.2 (October, 2011), Contribtastic! is only available for Windows machines.  You can technically use EVE-Central without using (or even installing) the market data uploader, but you will be somewhat at the mercy of the "freshness" of the EVE-Central database.  By seeding the database with local data from the system you start in (as outlined below), your odds of encountering out-of-date market information go down dramatically.   When you run Contribtastic!, you'll need to make sure the cache folder location is set properly (sometimes it resets for no reason). To change the cache folder, go to the File menu and select ''Locate cache folder.'' You want to select:
+The first thing you should do in order to take advantage of EVE-Central is to install the free [http://dev.eve-central.com/contribtastic/start market data uploader client] called Contribtastic!  This program runs in the background while you play and scrapes market data out of the game's cache, uploading it into the EVE-Central database.  As of version 2.0.2 (October, 2011), Contribtastic! is only available for Windows machines.  You can technically use EVE-Central without using (or even installing) the market data uploader, but you will be somewhat at the mercy of the "freshness" of the EVE-Central database.  By seeding the database with local data from the system you start in (as outlined below), your odds of encountering out-of-date market information go down dramatically.   When you run Contribtastic!, you'll need to make sure the cache folder location is set properly (sometimes it resets for no reason). To change the cache folder, go to the File menu and select ''Locate cache folder.'' You want to select:
   C:\Users\&lt;UserName&gt;\AppData\Local\CCP\EVE\c_program_files_(x86)_ccp_eve_tranquility\cache\MachoNet\87.237.38.200\&lt;3xx&gt;\CachedMethodCalls\
 &lt;UserName&gt; is the username of the currently logged-in user on the computer.  For the directory marked &lt;3xx&gt; above, there will be several folders with three digit numbers starting with a 3 inside ...\87.237.38.200\, you want the highest numbered one.