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EVE Online: Add-in for MS Excel

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Re: EVE Online: Add-in for MS Excel

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Post by reportgunner »

tough wrote: post #9
mewmew07 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess it's also true that not everyone wants to play a game where an Excel add-in is not available. Please note, Excel is not a requirement to play EVE Online, it is only useful to have an add-in for some roles. Further, for most popular games, Excel doesn't even make sense. Parent's request for more games to be more accessible to external tools like Excel is not a request to make Excel access your CoD game state,…

> not a request to make Excel access your CoD game state, don't be dense. Hey one could imagine cool things to crunch that data lmao

Microsoft Excel for Xbox ?

Re: EVE Online: Add-in for MS Excel

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Post by noir_lord »

rektide wrote: post #2

This mostly facilitates nicely what players were already doing with api & data dump integrations. It greatly boosts accessibility though, which is great. It just is so remarkable to me that no other games dare to have the depth & accessibility that EVE does. No one else has anything remotely as open ended as EVE Online's existing APIs or data dumps. It's shocking to me that games remain so quaintly isolated in their…

> It just is so remarkable to me that no other games dare to have the depth & accessibility that EVE does.

I think arma3 does (in terms of depth - very different games), it has a full programming language built into - people have done everything from Zombie Survival to Living on a tropical island to recreating the Vietnam war to completely replacing the stock AI with one that feels remarkably human[1].

It is a staggeringly complex system underneath.

[1] https://github.com/nk3nny/LambsDanger/releases

Re: EVE Online: Add-in for MS Excel

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Post by Technotroll »

kjs3 wrote: post #3
rektide wrote: post #2

This mostly facilitates nicely what players were already doing with api & data dump integrations. It greatly boosts accessibility though, which is great. It just is so remarkable to me that no other games dare to have the depth & accessibility that EVE does. No one else has anything remotely as open ended as EVE Online's existing APIs or data dumps. It's shocking to me that games remain so quaintly isolated in their…

Not everyone wants to play a game where Excel is a requirement.

EVE Online has the nickname "Spreadsheets in Space" for a reason, though. There are many aspects of the game where you don't need a spreadsheet, so you're not forced to play this part of the game. However, if you want to do anything serious within research, production or sales, then spreadsheets quickly become your friends. And API calls and scripting.

Re: EVE Online: Add-in for MS Excel

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Post by moffkalast »

Applejinx wrote: post #13
_dan wrote: post #5

This is perfectly in the crossover between useful feature and top notch April Fools prank.

Yup. I know just enough about EVE to know that this is not, in the least, a joke… but for all that, it's funny as hell :)

They say EVE is a spreadsheet simulator with some spaceships thrown in it, so you're probably right.
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