Features

Below you can find description of the main window tabs and their features.

Short feature list is available here. Also you can refer to planned features and known issues sections.

Features in details can be found here.

Character sheet

  • Show character information: name, portrait, corporation, skill points, clone information, training information and the wallet
  • Information can be imported from EVE API
  • Full copy and paste support

 
 

Orders

  • Show character sell and buy orders
  • Information can be imported via EVE API or file exported from EVE Online client
  • Auto delete of imported files (option)
  • Show summary statistics on all or selected orders (when selected two or more)
  • Possibility to sort, group and filter orders. Filter expressions can be combined with “;” delimiter. For instance “Cerberus; Jita” – shows all orders with Cerberus at Jita
  • Special trade information pane: general order info, price, competitor’s price, profit, net profit, profit loss, recommended price
  • Order age warning system informs when your order information becomes too old
  • Possibility to set up self cost price
  • Possibility to view competitor’s orders within preferred range
  • Full copy and paste support

Market

  • Show market orders for selected trade goods
  • Information can be imported via files exported from EVE Online client
  • Auto delete of imported files (option)
  • Order stacking feature allows to group orders by range for more handy market representation
  • Show summary statistics on all or selected orders (when selected two or more)
  • Advanced location filter allows to select places of interest in market
  • Market browser saves browsing history and allows to move through it
  • Bookmarks stores your places of interest – sets of regions, solar systems or stations
  • Favorites list stores your most usable trade goods
  • Order age warning system informs when your orders information becomes too old
  • Full copy and paste support

Transactions

  • Show character’s transactions
  • Information can be imported via EVE API only
  • Possibility to filter order by type (sell or buy), time range or custom expression. Filter expressions can be combined with “;” delimiter. For instance “Tritanium; Hek” – shows all sell or buy transactions with Tritanium at Hek.
  • Selecter transaction can be used as a cost price for selected item type
  • Show summary statistics on all or selected orders (when selected two or more)
  • Full copy and paste support

Self cost

  • Show self costs for item types
  • Possibility to sort and filter self costs. Filter expressions can be combined with “;” delimiter.
  • Currently only manual calculation method is supported
  1. Jolinar
    April 17th, 2011 at 02:36 | #1

    You can add as a “Order feature” the AWESOME possibility to highlight finished orders. This is critical to control massive trading, allowing you to know immediately what are the items to re-buy to be able to refill your order.

    This is for me THE feature of your excellent software for managing large scale trade with close to Zero effort.

  2. Jolinar
    April 17th, 2011 at 02:37 | #2

    This is especially awesome because this soft enable you to highlight, if wanted, only the orders that have finished since the last update of the API data.

  3. Thart
    April 17th, 2011 at 12:33 | #3

    I’m going to add “Order history” feature in 1.1 version.
    It shows you finished orders and allows to filter them by time range.

  4. Grayven
    June 28th, 2011 at 18:02 | #4

    No suggestions, just some thanks: youre the MAN!!
    :-)

  5. Simon
    September 14th, 2011 at 18:25 | #5

    Hey your tool is AWSOME but it would be even better if the self costs would be added automatically with fulfilled buy-orders. Thank you Thart

  6. Jamie
    December 8th, 2011 at 05:21 | #6

    “Order history” feature in 1.1 version.
    It shows you finished orders and allows to filter them by time range.

    could use an option, “last Import”

    works fine though if you update your orders every 1 hour, but becomes confusing when trying to do it serveral times per day.

    auto delete old files should delete these old completed orders ?

  7. January 11th, 2012 at 03:40 | #7

    I cannot see were can I see the Corp journal and/or transactions
    Samo for contracts
    I’ve checked the new IP settings, and I’ve added the Corp API to my char…

  8. January 11th, 2012 at 03:42 | #8

    @AntonioMCH
    I meant “API settings” not “IP settings”

  9. Thart
    January 11th, 2012 at 13:12 | #9

    Jamie :

    “Order history” feature in 1.1 version.
    It shows you finished orders and allows to filter them by time range.

    could use an option, “last Import”

    works fine though if you update your orders every 1 hour, but becomes confusing when trying to do it serveral times per day.

    auto delete old files should delete these old completed orders ?

    I’ll create new feature which should help with this issue.

  10. Najtrok
    March 23rd, 2012 at 17:08 | #10

    Because I didn’t like to input all my selfcost manually, I wrote a small python script to accomplish that task.

    Note that your file must look like this:
    TYPEID SELFCOST\n

    Note that you can choose your own delimiter. Also duplicate items will lead to errors, but maybe it still helps you.

    #!/usr/bin/env
    # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
    #
    # Adding Self Cost to SQLITE DB
    #

    import sqlite3

    PATH_TO_DYNAMIC_DATABASE = r’/path/to/EVEMentat.dynamic.database’
    PRICE_DELIM = “\t” # Enter your delimiter here
    SELFCOST_FILENAME = ‘selfcosts.txt’

    conn = sqlite3.connect(PATH_TO_DYNAMIC_DATABASE)
    cur = conn.cursor()

    self_file = open(SELFCOST_FILENAME, ‘r’)

    count = 0
    for line in self_file:
    count += 1
    if count == 1:
    continue
    data = line.split(PRICE_DELIM)
    data[4] = int(data[4].replace(“,”,”").replace(“.”,”"))
    data[1] = int(data[1])
    query = “INSERT INTO mentatSelfCosts VALUES (%s,%s,’Manual’,”)” % (data[1], data[4])
    cur.execute(query)
    conn.commit()
    cur.close()

  11. Tyanuh
    June 3rd, 2012 at 18:38 | #11

    Maybe i’m overlooking this. Is it possible to see in Mentat when looking at an item in market browser how many of that item is being sold per day in that region?

  12. MAtt
    July 4th, 2012 at 13:23 | #12

    Awesome tools, thanks!

    Is there, or could there be, a way to add a fixed ‘import cost’ based on the m3 of an item, that is separate from the ‘self cost’? This would be handy for 0.0 importers that use JF services with a fixed ISK/m3 price to get goods into their 0.0 marketplace.

  13. Thart
    July 4th, 2012 at 13:44 | #13

    Tyanuh :

    Maybe i’m overlooking this. Is it possible to see in Mentat when looking at an item in market browser how many of that item is being sold per day in that region?

    Currently EVE Mentat doesn’t support market history.

    MAtt :

    Is there, or could there be, a way to add a fixed ‘import cost’ based on the m3 of an item, that is separate from the ‘self cost’? This would be handy for 0.0 importers that use JF services with a fixed ISK/m3 price to get goods into their 0.0 marketplace.

    I think it can be implemented as a separate feature which calculates volume of item set and then calculates delivery cost.

    Added task to the database.

  14. Casshara
    August 11th, 2012 at 14:00 | #14

    Another idea for a feature could be, instead of tallying up the income and outgoes as a graph, have the program try to find the assotiated buy/sell orders, and graph the net income/losses between the spans (i.e. I buy item A, price 10m/sell for 15 -> graph finds 5m income). that would be nice for traders in general I think. Otherwise, great program, love it!

  15. Thart
    August 11th, 2012 at 20:31 | #15

    @Casshara
    Planned.

  16. Deterro
    August 30th, 2012 at 19:34 | #16

    I’d like to use the wallet graph feature for my corporation’s wallet, but I can’t seem to find a way to do this. Is it possible?

  17. Thart
    August 30th, 2012 at 20:33 | #17

    @Deterro
    Planned for 2.0.

  18. Deterro
    August 31st, 2012 at 02:34 | #18

    @Thart

    Thanks for the reply – could you also give me an ETA for v2.0? (Roughly)

  19. Thart
    August 31st, 2012 at 08:46 | #19

    @Deterro
    Unfortunately, no.

  20. capdude
    October 29th, 2012 at 05:18 | #20

    feature request:

    i do station trading only, it would be awesome to select all buy orders and click “set cost price” to adjust self cost so i can see correct profits, and it would be totally nice to include taxes in the profit calculations.

  21. Thart
    October 30th, 2012 at 12:58 | #21

    @capdude
    Thanks, I’ve added your request into my database.

  22. synyster31
    May 27th, 2013 at 17:10 | #22

    @capdude
    Adding onto this, an option automatically update cost price as buy order price is changed would be good.

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