whoa i didn't know gts was public now.

whoa i didn't know gts was public now.

While GTS is an amazing tool our GARPA bros have spent time developing, its not very applicable to DUST 514 at this moment, nor do I think it would be of much benefit until NullSec is introduced.

There are dust alliances like ROFL, Orion, CRONOS, and such that are moving fleets around, setting up POSes, and bringing in jump freighters and carriers. It's a great tool for them.

- Kugutsumen, an EVE fan forum that is pretty good for a variety of things such as the politics that play into the game, mocking of Sort Dragon's girlfriend, and a way to talk to non-corp/alliance members without being on the main forums. They even have a DUST section up.

Why?

Why did you mention Kugutsumen?

NO!

Also worth noting that EVE Gate works without an EVE account and can display all corps in existence, not only those which have been detected by third parties.

https://gate.eveonline.com/Profile/[character name]
https://gate.eveonline.com/Corporation/[corp name]
https://gate.eveonline.com/Alliance/[alliance name]

Seeing as EVE Gate is terrible and has a better iteration of its details in DotLan, its not really worth mentioning.

Hello there,

My name is Abu Stij and I'm a Goon. Scary, I know. However I have decided to confuse and confound you pubbies by working with my fellow Goons to give you a list of tools to survive in New Eden.

SHOW ME THE TOOLS!

Calm down there young chap, there are dozens of useful tools out there and I can only provide you so much info, the rest is on you to go discover.

I suggest the uneducated DUST corps that have not used services outside of the game to start learning how to use them. Below I've also provided a link of other useful sites & programs myself and several other nice people agreed would be of benefit to you:

- EFT (EVE Fitting Tool), a solid program to help you test and try out ship fittings (soon to be dropsuit fittings if/when they implement the data that's currently available) and fine tune the dropsuits capabilities to your specific needs. This tool is popular in EVE for its numerous options including the ability to determine effects from wormholes, gang bonuses, boosters, remote repping, and various other examples. While constantly expanding, its basic purpose is to find tanking, damage output, mining yield, and fitting limitations according to a specific set of skills that may be changed.

- EVE Central, a site dedicated to tracking market data. This will come in handy once players can manipulate the market in DUST, and it already can provide you prices for items if you want to check.

- Kugutsumen, an EVE fan forum that is pretty good for a variety of things such as the politics that play into the game, mocking of Sort Dragon's girlfriend, and a way to talk to non-corp/alliance members without being on the main forums. They even have a DUST section up.

- NEOCOM & AURA, two really solid and slick mobile apps that will, when CCP releases API keys for our DUST characters, help you track your DUST characters skill progression, track your assets, and check EVE Mails (currently you can't respond, yell at @CCP_Unifex that you want that feature on twitter. Mention "You Know Nothing Jon Lander" he love it). Why do you need to use these, well its helpful to keep track of what skills you have when not logged into your PS3, as well as it can let you get up to date info from your corp/alliance if a mail goes out. I can also only think that there will be a support feature to have a countdown timer for your next PC battles.

- GARPA Topographical Survey this is something the boys back at Goon Central came up with and recently gave out version 1.9.1 for free to celebrate 10 years of EVE Online. GARPA is GoonswarmGÇÖs R&D arm: they figure out how the game works at a detailed level and create tools for GoonSwarm Federation. GTS is a best-of-class tool to help players get the most out of EVE. Our Bees even spent time to give you a manual.

- DotLan. DotLan is a useful site for those of us who have been playing EVE as well as shooting blues...err...reds in DUST 514. It provides tactical maps spiced with near realtime information about the policatal landscape, ingame activities and player groups. This system can show you how to go from one system to another, as well as how many kills have been recorded in the area in the past 24 hours (see: Burn Jita 2 charts), it also tracks the size of corporations, alliances and more. What DotLan accomplishes is all done with data CCP has made available for sites like that to exist.

- EVEmon. EVEMon is a lightweight, easy-to-use standalone Windows application designed to assist you in keeping track of your EVE Online character progression. For more specifics please check their EVElopedia page. Now this may not at all be useful to DUST users BUT, if & when CCP ever decide to actually give us an API key (please do it soon), it wouldn't be too farfetch'd to think the developer would expand this program to be able to plan out a skill tree for your DUST merc and provide you a decent "Skillpoints Remaining" that you need to "farm" in matches.

NOTE: LEGAL MUMBOJUMBO SUGGESTS I TELL YOU THAT IF YOU DOWNLOAD EVE FITTING TOOL OR GARPA TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEY, ONLY USE THE LINK I PROVIDED. THESE ARE THE OFFICIAL LINKS THE DEVELOPERS PROVIDED ON THE EVE ONLINE FORUMS.

There are many many more sites and programs, so if you're in a group with some EVE players ask them what programs they use outside of the EVE.exe program.

Smells like an elaborate ploy to get some ps3 id's.

:tinfoil:

Except that DotLan isn't aware of all corps, where EVE Gate is.

Smells like an elaborate ploy to get some ps3 id's.

EDIT: Are you guys providing non-compiled source code for these goon sponsored projects?

EVEgate does not provide more useful information than Dotlan does, you have yet to prove this whatsoever. Your whole argument was "well some corps that haven't been picked up by DotLan's system are on EVEgate", while true, there literally is no useful info to be pulled from that corp or alliances' page. Even if you could see the list of members for a DUST corp on EVEgate, DotLan still provides that service as well as kill history not only for that player (currently only in EVE) but for the entire corp & alliance, where as EVE Gate doesn't.

I have yet to prove that because it's not my argument, no matter how insistently you respond as if it is. You summarised my position in the quoted part, and I'm not mentioning EVEGate as a competitor to DotLan, simply adding to the thread that it's another available resource which fills in some gaps in DotLan's info.

EVEGate also provides employment history for DUST mercs which DotLan is not tracking.

Why do you hate EVEGate so hard that the mere mention of it sends you into a spin over why your preferred service is the best ever?

Also, bump for useful tools.

Sure, eventually other services will have that same info and EVE Gate will be made redundant. I'm not aware of any other services at present that have the same info as EVE Gate.

Unless your argument is that a DUST merc's employment history is not useful, in which case I disagree but you're welcome to not care, EVE Gate seems to offer unique functionality in recording this for now, so I mentioned it as an addendum to the list.

I still don't understand why you object to that because your objections seem to be based on services which WOULD do these things better if they were tracking DUST as much as they are EVE.