11 September 2012

Intel Gathering

I came online today to receive an IM from a corp mate. He was pointing out a new intel tool he had stumbled across on the very slick domain name of wormhol.es. The aim of this tool is to:

"provide wormhole adventurers with a quick and easy way of finding out more information about what has gone on in whichever wormhole they have ventured into. It analyses information from a variety of sources and attempts to identify significant activity that has occured, and using algorithms attempts to identify who is and has been resident."
 The information provided includes the expected static connections you might find, the recent PvE and PvP combat statistics, who probably lives there and what they like to fly, finally you are given the most recent kill in the system courtesy of eve-kill.net.

All the useful information you could ever need

Of course the first thing I checked was the intel available for the wormholes occupied by my corp and the academy corp in my alliance. The intel seems reasonably active although the active timezone guess was a little off. Closer inspection shows the percentages used to estimate the active timezone. Possibly a tweak to the code to allow more than one active timezone would be useful as our active periods are barely split on percentages.

The site has the facilities to use the extra information provided by the in-game browser. If you grant trust to this site you are able to hit the refresh button and fetch the intel for your current location. The site claims it only uses this information for updating the viewed page but I am paranoid - this is EVE after all. I'll definitely be using this site, but from the safety of an out-of-game browser.

6 comments:

  1. What is this? WHO ARE YOU?

    Also, that Megathron kill was sweet.

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    1. I actually picked that wormhole sig at random. Was surprised to see Fin's name and then had a whole crisis about whether or not to pick another sig. I decided it's not like I actually know Fin other than reading the name in your blog. Oh, and that one time I saw him in W-space and stayed decidedly hidden :)

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    2. Oh! Okay, so the image is nothing to do with your corp or academy. I thought you were in WHEN and I just hadn't noticed.

      That's quite a random string of numbers you managed to find, in that case!

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    3. The site autocompletes based on what your type. I typed "J22" and selected the second one down. I guess was all about the twos as I took that screenshot.

      For the record, you really wouldn't notice me in system if i saw you first. You're way too scary :-p

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  2. I've decided that will take at least some credit for skewing our "active time zone" statistic. How do you like, or dislike, it compared to wormnav?

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    1. It presents slightly different information than wormnav. For simply exploring it would be nice if I could set up wormhol.es to display expected sig percentage on the static connections for my ship and skills. Then I wouldn't need wormnav at all until running sites (I like wormnav's sig and anom guides).

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