Project Outline

Stage 1: Price Database

Stage Goals:

• Set up environment for multiple DBs.  Currently planning on Google's App Engine.
• Custom sub-set price database based from eve-central
• Raw materials: 1x/day, or average over each day
• T1, T2, Meta, Faction price DBs: 3x/day, across EU, US, AU TZ's
• Be able to store 1yr of price data on all relevant items (may need to revise)
• Build loader script (python).  
• Build itemDB from EVE data dump.  
• ItemID
• ItemName
• Meta Level
• Group ID
• BPOID
• Understand and upload BPO DB.  Will be used to process historical price data.
• Attempt link back to Google Spreadsheets to allow for intermediate access

Progress:

• Set up app-engine account (eve-prosper)
• Set up github project (EVE-Prosper)
• Started process of itemDB goal

To-Do:

• Start python loader program.  Know very little python
• Set up billing for database/appengine
• Upload each reference database
• Conference with someone who actually knows DBs, so I don't do something retarded in the setup

Stage 2: Cruncher Programs

Stage Goals:

• Create subscripts for:
• T1 BPO price crunching
• Dependant-products (R.A.M., Components, etc) processing
• T2 Price crunching
• Can process BPO/base-invent/decryptor/meta price data
• Return base-invent and "best decryptor" prices
• Graphing script
• Buy/Sell/Build
• Able to process historical data from raw materials/product DBs
• output profit margins to a DB? (for automation later)
• Figure out if it's more efficient to process historical data each request or save in price database
• Start front-end user interface.  Simple request->results interface to start

Progress:

To-do:

Stage 3: Automation Programming

Stage Goals:

• Create new scripts for:
• Character Processing
• Job eligibility
• Industry job tracking
• Corp Processing
• Industry Job tracking
• Transaction tracking
• Task list?
• Kit-building
• CREST automation (if available)
• Kit sorting
• Purchasing?
• Courier Contracting?
• Predictive automation
• Pick products based on project staff, market volume
• Allow human intervention to finalize automation decisions
• Track individual progress
• Sales tracking for volume adjustment
• Improve UI for interfacing with scripts
• Lay foundation for separate user accounts
• Start privatizing project.  As automation is completed, access will need to be limited to contributors
• Research monetization to subsidize costs with revenue of some sort
• Start opening in-game corp 

Progress:

To-Do:

Stage 4: In-Game implementation

Stage Goals:

• To be determined
• Generate investment capital: 50B
• Find contributors in-game to handle manager work (purchasing, POS management, hauling)
• Consolidate manufacture staff
• Solidify accounting structure

Progress:

• Generating revenue in industry project ~2-5B/mo
• Processing BPO library (components, T1, etc)
• Basic functionality in gdocs

To-Do:

• Grow in-game staff
• Need tools to facilitate more work
• Bank FW monies for start up capital