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Re: EVE Online: Add-in for MS Excel

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Post by athom »

frakkingcylons wrote: post #85
Titan2189 wrote: post #20

A few months ago I've found this browser-based game which ditches the whole 3D game ui directly and allows you to do all your spreadsheet planning right there. https://prosperousuniverse.com/

More details: this game is an economic MMO. If a major player that used to produce a huge chunk of the supply of coffee suddenly decides to quit, then everyone in the market for coffee will notice. Fortunately, almost everyone needs coffee (it makes your production times faster), so ideally someone steps up to fill that supply because they know the demand is there. Things take hours to do. Fly a ship from Deimos to t…

Point given for "write my own ERP software." I work with that stuff on a daily basis, and am actually thinking of trying just that.

Re: EVE Online: Add-in for MS Excel

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Post by CuriousCosmic »

imtringued wrote: post #39
Titan2189 wrote: post #20

A few months ago I've found this browser-based game which ditches the whole 3D game ui directly and allows you to do all your spreadsheet planning right there. https://prosperousuniverse.com/

Prosperous universe players don't use Excel, they use Google sheets because of significant collaboration between players. The main spreadsheet of a corporation may have hundreds of tabs and runs into the 10 million cell limit all the time. The spreadsheets run Javascript code to import data from a tool called FIO. A major downside is that these spreadsheets end up taking forever to update. You change one thing and wa…

Honestly that sounds like the community is going to need to learn SQL and start moving into proper DBMS.

Re: EVE Online: Add-in for MS Excel

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Post by kjs3 »

mewmew07 wrote: post #70
kjs3 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dense? Who's the one who missed the joke, and then doubled down on missing the point? The parent is excited because the game they like to play is so baroque and complicated, that full participation requires external data processing (yes I know you don't have to use Excel or anything else, but amongst the dozen or so regular EVE Online players I know, including one former EO QA tester, every single one uses Excel to s…

My brother in christ, you are are a casual, and there's nothing wrong with that, but leave the serious gaming for the hardcore players.

No problem, sport, it's all yours. Just keep your APIs, Excel spreadsheets, game-as-job and the rest of the hardcoreness down in your mom's basement where it belongs.

Re: EVE Online: Add-in for MS Excel

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Post by yreg »

samstave wrote: post #80
mabbo wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you've ever played eve you realize that the most critical skill in the game is spreadsheet usage. I'll bet Martin Shkreli would dominate at that game. (Yes, that Shkreli: search him on YouTube and marvel at his excel skills.)

I recall an article from a few years ago about a guy in the Mission in SF and his entire job was being the "accountant" for his guild - and he talked about he never logs into the game, just manages the resources of the guild via excel. And yes, if you never seen Shkreli do exccel, youll be very impressed.

It's not like I don't believe you, but I scrolled through two of his videos where he used excel and I didn't notice anything unusual.

So if anyone has an example of some wizardry, please share!

Re: EVE Online: Add-in for MS Excel

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Post by KyleBerezin »

tenpies wrote: post #28
_dan wrote: post #5

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

The fact that this isn't some mod or fan effort either, but a 100% no-malarky release from the actual developer, along with a manual, template, and tutorials; is absolutely amazing.

They used to employ a full time economist, Dr. Eyjolfur Guðmundsson. He was great, he would prepare quarterly economic reports https://cdn1.eveonline.com/community/QEN/QEN_Q4-2010.pdf

They really are a sight to behold. Eventually they got simpler, then annual. They do them monthly now, but Guðmundsson isn't part of it and they are really nothing more than data dumps with some automated infographs.

Re: EVE Online: Add-in for MS Excel

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Post by jachee »

athom wrote: post #111
frakkingcylons wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

More details: this game is an economic MMO. If a major player that used to produce a huge chunk of the supply of coffee suddenly decides to quit, then everyone in the market for coffee will notice. Fortunately, almost everyone needs coffee (it makes your production times faster), so ideally someone steps up to fill that supply because they know the demand is there. Things take hours to do. Fly a ship from Deimos to t…

Point given for "write my own ERP software." I work with that stuff on a daily basis, and am actually thinking of trying just that.

I’ve only dealt with a couple of ERP systems briefly and at the lowest levels, but they both felt like an incredibly inefficient undertaking that is ripe for some disruption.

Re: EVE Online: Add-in for MS Excel

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Post by KyleBerezin »

pnpnp wrote: post #76
nntwozz wrote: post #43

EVE Online, blurring the line yet again between game and full-time job.

I don’t play anymore, but I’m a little sad it had that reputation. The game was so much more than then, and had (has?) brilliant PvP. It really was one of the games that did a great job of providing a real sandbox. Spreadsheets were just part of the equation for some playstyles.

Yea, it became a spreadsheet game if you wanted to make spreadsheets lol. If you go "I want to be a daytrader" or "I want to create an industrial empire" obviously spreadsheets are needed. But they have absolutely nothing to be with the normal day-to-day for most players.
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