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Revision as of 09:30, 31 July 2010
Over the years, several tools and sites have been created by players to help develop their characters and manage information. Below is a list of various applications and websites that can be very helpful to new and veteran players.
Please note that this list is a work in progress. Feel free to add any additional tools or sites!
Contents
Applications
Applications listed below are the most important ones, that will be useful to majority of people. For more specialized software, head over here - although some of the software listed there is outdated.
Windows
EVE Fitting Tool (EFT)
EFT allows users to create, experiment, and save different ship fittings without the hassle of being in game. The fittings will calculate and display various stats such as tanking abilities and damage to compare with other ships. Players can import their character information to take their skills into account with stat calculation. It will even show the skills a player lacks which is very useful for future planning. EFT is a must have for players both new and old!
EVEMon
EVEMon was created to help players with the daunting task of skill planning. Players are able to load their character information using API keys to keep track of their current skill sheet and training times. You can then develop a plan for future training and it will help optimize the plan by suggesting learning skills or attribute remapping to reduce the time needed. As a bonus, you can view ship loadouts from BattleClinic.com and build a skill plan to get you into that fit based on your character's skills. This tool is extremely useful and can even save the ship loadouts from BattleClinic to import into EFT.
EveHQ
EveHQ is a fully open source application designed to be an all-in-one management tool for use with EVE Online. Players can download and even create their own plug-ins to help manage various information and aspects of the game. The core application itself displays basic pilot information, skill training, and statistics. On the site, they feature plug-ins already created to help develop your character, view item stats, and even plan routes on star maps. If you prefer to create your own, they have a development forum and page where you can download the source code. Although it is not as popular as EFT or EVEMon , it is definitely a great alternative for people who prefer an all-in-one package or wish to develop and customize their own programs.
Eve Chat Watch
Monitors your chats for interesting messages. With it you dont miss your buddies saying something in Corp, a fleet being formed in Alliance or that the juicy WH op need more participants.
Eve Refinery
EveRefinery is a Windows program that displays market prices and refined prices for the items in your inventory. Thus, you can quickly decide whether to sell or refine each piece of your loot. It can also be handy for different activities, since it displays item prices in one big list, thus allowing to analyze the market.
Eve Mentat
This program is useful for trading, it allows tracking of market orders, it reads exported market logs, it automatically checks for concurrency and other useful features.
Linux/Unix/Mac
GtkEveMon
Replacement for EveMon. Open source, using Gtk toolkit, runs fine under both Linux and Mac OSX (available via Macports).
Pyfa (Python fitting assistant)
Replacement for EFT. Open source, written in Python, runs under both Linux and Mac OSX (soon available via Macports).
Websites
Scrapheap Challenge
Scrapheap Challenge is a forum with discussions ranging from PvE and PvP fits, to political discussions in their War & Politics forum that often more interesting to follow than similiar threads on COAD.
The ship setup discussions are known to produce some excellent fits, although mostly aimed at high skillpoint pilots.
EVE BattleClinic
EVE BattleClinic offers tons of great information for EVE players. It features news, guides, loadouts, message boards, and even browser tools that players can use to help with character development.
Many of the fits on Battleclinic, even some highly-rated ones, are very mediocre. Scrapheap Challenge (for high skillpoint players), and Eve University's ship setup forum (for low skillpoint players) are often better sources for fittings.
EVE-Central
EVE-Central tracks market information for items throughout the various regions in EVE. Players can even pull reports and sync applications with the site to pull any market data. Bear in mind that it relies solely on player submissions and may not always be accurate.
Grismar's EVE Wiki
Grismar's EVE Wiki is a very robust website that offers a variety of different tools that can be accessed using the in game browser. It features tools such as route planning, ore price tables, and build requirements.
Enildor's Eve Ore Calculator
Enildor's Eve Ore Caulculator displays various ore pricing based on current data pulled from EVE-Central. It also allows users to change the region to reflect pricing in their area and alter refining percentages based on their own character's abilities.
Ombey's 2d EVEMaps
Ombey's 2d EVEMaps provides a downloadable PDF that displays all the different systems within each region for easier navigation & route planning. As a bonus, the different systems include notes that indicate the stations available and the number of asteroid belts within that system.
DOTLAN :: EveMaps
DOTLAN EveMaps uses vector based maps to display the different systems within each region in browser format. The maps are dynamic and are updated each day to reflect sovereignty and occupancy changes within each system. With the recent update to the in-game browser, DOTLAN EveMaps can be a great tool to use for fleet roaming and planning within game although it does run a little sluggish at the present time.
Eve commander
Eve commander is a website that allows users to keep track of character information without the need for a download. Depending on the API key you provide, it can access basic character information, training queues, or even detailed wallet information. A great alternative if you away from home and not able to use or install any programs.
Eve-Online Agent Finder
Agent Finder is a very useful site that allows you to search for different agents in systems. It offers options to narrow down results to specific levels, corporations, and divisions. As a bonus, it works great with the new in-game browser.
eLoot
Loot value calculator, allows upload of fleet logs and calculates sell and buy value of every item, it optionally allows to set refining skills to show resulting minerals and their total value
Mobile Phone Apps
Capsuleer
Capsuleer is a very nice application developed recently for the Apple iPhone. It allows players to view information such as character stats, skill training, and wallet balances on the go. They even added functionality to check server status and read news headlines from the EVE Online website. Its a very useful tool for iPhone owners who wish to keep track of their characters out of game.
iClone
iClone is an entirely comprehensive iPhone application giving the full capabilities of the EVE API to the iPhone user. It displays full character information, wallet information, and even corporation information. In this author's opinion, its capabilities make Capsuleer (above) unnecessary.
EVE Mobile Skill Planner
EVE Mobile Skill Planner is a character tracking application developed for phones with Java capabilities. Similar to Capsuleer, it displays character stats, skill training completion, and wallet information. It will also allow you to add skill completion times to your mobile calendar. Although not as graphically pleasing as Capsuleer, it is a great alternative for players who would like to keep track of their characters on the go.
Original created by Krelis Maxwell on 12/04/09
