CCP wants to give EVE Online players access to market data on a consistent basis, and they've released a batch of it in a trial run to get feedback from the community. This initial one-time datadump contains market data from 2010 through May 2011 for more than 6,000 items, including their average prices.

During this trial run, you can download the data in two formats: CSV and SQL. CCP wants to know which format you prefer and how often you'd like to receive new data. Once a month? Every couple weeks? Every few days? They also want to know how you plan to use the data.

So what's the purpose of this entire project? "If this turns out to be popular, it is my opinion that the more we can directly give to you, the better," CCP Dr.EyjoG said. "More data, more knowledge, more power to the pod pilots of New Eden."