EVE

It took a bit of badgering, but CCP have updated there website and given us a link on the main homepage. This should help drive up member numbers, and it gives me a bit of a pat on the back I've been needing lately. I've put a lot of time and effort into the site, and sometimes you can start to think its not worth it, but CCPs acknowledgement of the site and the continued sign-up rate has shown me the site is of great use and that I should continue developing it.
A big thank you to all my testers, and just generally to people who have helped me track down bugs and fix the data, I consider you part of the team too!

Check the forums news section for an update on the IGB support, and new changes going in soon.

In a break from the norm, I have started to release the IGB upgrade in pieces, so you can enjoy the speed benefits if your perservering with using it. I will post again, hopefully tomorrow night, when I have finished all the pages.

I have finished the data upgrade, and I'm happy to say it was a 100% success! You should notice all the gaps in the data have been filled and also a noticable speed increase in big queries. Any problems, please let me know on the forums, or use the contact page. I have also started converting the site to use CSS, which will make the IGB version of the site fly. At the moment it is kind of unusable and this is kinda my fault, for not learning everything I needed to know about the IGH before I leapt head-first into it. I will keep you posted...

I've completely re-written the data import procedures, so I can now pull in 100% of the data. I know there are still things missing from the feeds, but they will have to be added manually.

The new script is surprisingly fast, taking about 9 seconds to run, so I will do it while the site is live. You shouldn't notice it happening. I will also be putting the formatted data export up for download, if anyone wants to setup there own production/research website.

Also a big thank you goes out to Askari, who wrote the original script that I have butchered.

It would seem there was a fairly elementary bug in the forums that stopped people signing up, that has now been fixed. Please try to sign-up again if you couldn't previously.

The forums are now open for discussing anything you, but mostly this site and what can be done to improve and expand it. We have also been having more attacks from unscrupulous pirates, but the recent measures put in place have meant zero disruption or slow down. Try harder next time!

The in-game browser support went up today, and its looking good so far.. I am leaving it as a beta-update for the moment, until I can be sure that its all working properly(Meaning I can roll it back fairly quickly). If you spot any errors or glitches on the site please let me know, and Ill fix them ASAP.

I have also added a limit to the number of bps you can display at a time. There was a problem that the main bp page was loading up all your bps on the first load, and if you have a couple of hundred of them(As many of you do) then it was taking a long time, and putting a huge load on the server. The limit is set to 10 by default, but goes up in increments of 10 to 100. As usual, let me know if there are any problems.

We had a long and sustained attack against out server tonight, that has ment email was blocked for all users, which unfortunately also ment that the sign-up page was down for 7-8 hours. I've taken measure to make sure that the server won't suffer as much from these problems in future, and this kind of service denial won't be happening again in the near future.

I'd also like to give a shout out to Spnecht & Strikeman, they have both been my voluntary testers during the beta phase of the site, and have devoted a lot of personal time to the project, despite not knowing me from Adam. The've both been given free life-time accounts as a thank you.

After several months hard work, the website is finally finished. We are still looking for ideas for reports, and accepting requests for features in version 2. Please read the sign-up page for T&Cs, and pricing information(Please note we do *not* accept real world money under any circumstances, so dont ask). And for all you people who are new to the site, here are a few pages from the help system to show you what the site is all about..