{"id":527,"date":"2009-12-07T15:12:36","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T14:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evemaps.dotlan.net\/blog\/?p=527"},"modified":"2009-12-07T18:39:55","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T17:39:55","slug":"api-nerf-incoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evemaps.dotlan.net\/blog\/2009\/12\/07\/api-nerf-incoming\/","title":{"rendered":"CCP nerfed the Sovereignty API"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CCP Chronotis<\/strong> just announced that they&#8217;ll <strong>remove<\/strong> the <strong>SovereignyStatus API<\/strong> which lists all Territorial Claim Units and Sovereignty Blocking Units.<\/p>\n<p>Quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Folks,<\/p>\n<p>We will be soon be removing \/map\/SovereigntyStatus.xml.aspx API which allows you to see the sovereignty structure status for the universe. We would like to eventually re-release it with restrictions to either the corporation or alliance owning the sovereignty structures so they can get a good overview of the status of their solar systems.<\/p>\n<p>The information provided by this view was far too extensive compared to what is available ingame where you should rely on traditional scouting for this intelligence data. The &#8216;fog of war&#8217; should be maintained here without having a far too revealing view through the API.<\/p>\n<p>As per CCP Elerhino and Incognito&#8217;s previous responses, we will also be working on adding more relevant sovereignty APIs in the future such as the sovereignty index and changes overviews from the dashboard in related ongoing development.<\/p>\n<p>-Chronotis<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the final end this will means, the <strong>time<\/strong> I put into the <strong>Sovereignty Structures View<\/strong> was <strong>wasted<\/strong>. \ud83d\ude41 I can understand that the API contained far too much sensitive intel informations. The first 12 hours in the onlining process of a TCU are the most critical, as the TCU is still in a vulnerable state and and can easily be destroyed by a remote repping battleship gang.<\/p>\n<p>Well. Lets see what CCP&#8217;s final decision will be. Maybe the API will only get restricted and a couple of informations are not available or available only to those systems where a particular alliance has their structures in or it is getting completely removed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eveonline.com\/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&#038;threadID=1228297\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> http:\/\/www.eveonline.com\/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&#038;threadID=1228297<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">UPDATE<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The SovereignytStatus.xml.aspx API is <strong>already down<\/strong>. Woah, this time CCP was really fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CCP Chronotis just announced that they&#8217;ll remove the SovereignyStatus API which lists all Territorial Claim Units and Sovereignty Blocking Units. Quote: Folks, We will be soon be removing \/map\/SovereigntyStatus.xml.aspx API which allows you to see the sovereignty structure status for the universe. We would like to eventually re-release it with restrictions to either the corporation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evemaps.dotlan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evemaps.dotlan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evemaps.dotlan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evemaps.dotlan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evemaps.dotlan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/evemaps.dotlan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"https:\/\/evemaps.dotlan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evemaps.dotlan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evemaps.dotlan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evemaps.dotlan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}