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Invention Calculator

I was using Invention Calculator App found somewhere on Eve-O forums until I found out that it uses totally incorrect numbers for t2 manufacturing. That is - some time ago material requirements for t2 were changed a lot - cheaper materials are used in large quantities, more expensive ones are less used while keeping the overall cost about the same. The calculator had these numbers hardcoded into it. However I was surprised when I found that inventing certain ship wouldn't give me as much profit as the program told me (in fact I'm thinking on how to get back the isk I spent on invention itself).

So the question is - is there any invention calculator having the same functionality (get prices from eve-central, then calculate invention cost, average cost per success, profit from success, average profit from invention job and all that using decryptors and automatically providing me with a list of everything I can invent sorted by profitability) but using up-to-date blueprints data?

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aragaer
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As an additional requirement – it should be runnable under Linux. Not necessarily cross-platform tool, but not some obscure .Net stuff which refuses tu run under wine.

canhasgank
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I wouldn’t go as far as calling .net obscure… lol. I agree that cross platform support is preferred, though.

aragaer
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Some .Net programs do run under wine. Others are using something not available under Linux and thus fail to run. That’s what I call obscure.

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darinas [ Moderator ]

I can't say it is my favourite tool, as I prefer Eve-Meep and EveHQ (being a win-pc sucker :) ) but this "Invention Calculator" advertises that it works on Linux+wine. http://www.eve-search.com/thread/1231429/page/1

An alternative here (http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=743617) is written for windows, but includes the Delphi source and so should be transferable to Linux (w/ or w/o wine, I am not sure) with some programming knowledge from you.

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aragaer
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This is the tool I was using. And both links are actually the same app. Author claims that databases could be edited manually but I didn’t yet found what I have to edit.

And while there are sources I’m not familiar with delphi at all.

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冬の雺 [ Editor ]

If I get it right, then you probably have access to the source code of the app you were using? Would you mind to share it, so others (maybe me, maybe not, I can't promise ;-) can see what they could do with it?

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aragaer
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See Darina’s answer which links that app. There are source codes for Delphi.

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fergle f fergleson

Not exactly the answer to the original question, but Iif you've got a .net app that isn't working well under wine, try checking out the Mono project. It extends all/nearly-all of the .net framework to linux. Works pretty well too.

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harlock [ Editor ]

That one could help maybe... haven't tried it myself though.

http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1223530

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aragaer
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I see a Visual Basic 2008 source code and I have no idea how to use it under Linux.

aragaer
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I added it as a comment somewhere around adding bounty to my question.

aragaer
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Also EveHQ itself doesn’t run under wine properly requiring Microsoft Data Access Components. This isn’t as bad as in EveMeep case, but still not the best solution for me.

harlock
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Your being difficult missa think :D Add “linux” to your question maybe ?

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