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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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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 is really great, I highly recommend it.

Prosperous Universe Honest Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODecu2voAh8

Re: EVE Online: Add-in for MS Excel

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Does excel/office365 support themeing? This lack some kind of sci-fi character without a dark background and neon fonts.

Interesting, I'll file a feature request with our PMs. As far as I know we only have light/dark mode support. If you have an idea of how you'd like themeing to look shoot me an email to bgruenbaum@microsoft.com and I'll get it in front of a PM.

Re: EVE Online: Add-in for MS Excel

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post #15

an amazing space game managed with care and love from the developers and environment and yet being ruined from within with pay-to-win and loot-crate functions....

How bad is the new freemium model making things, i kind of fizzled out on playing EVE about a decade ago(life happened) and is wondering if the game is worth getting back into?

Re: EVE Online: Add-in for MS Excel

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post #15

an amazing space game managed with care and love from the developers and environment and yet being ruined from within with pay-to-win and loot-crate functions....

How bad is the new freemium model making things, i kind of fizzled out on playing EVE about a decade ago(life happened) and is wondering if the game is worth getting back into?

Have they implemented WIS?

Re: EVE Online: Add-in for MS Excel

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

How bad is the new freemium model making things, i kind of fizzled out on playing EVE about a decade ago(life happened) and is wondering if the game is worth getting back into?

Have they implemented WIS?

yes, but then they removed it because no one was using it

Re: EVE Online: Add-in for MS Excel

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post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

that moniker came from the visual appearance of the old UI circa 2010.

Re: EVE Online: Add-in for MS Excel

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post #21

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 is really great, I highly recommend it. Prosperous Universe Honest Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODecu2voAh8

Haha, that trailer is great.

Re: EVE Online: Add-in for MS Excel

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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.

Re: EVE Online: Add-in for MS Excel

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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…

The issue is that you typically need an unaccessible level of depth for new players to avoid the game getting "solved" by the data being open.

WotC has a huge problem with this in Magic the Gathering for instance. They used to publish all the stats about what decks won the daily events on their online platforms but they had to stop because the data helped people micro-optimize the best deck way to quickly after a new set of cards came out.

Re: EVE Online: Add-in for MS Excel

#30

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/

If you like that and 18th century naval history, you'll also like Rule the Waves 3, which also makes no bones about being a spreadsheet sim. Definitely on my wishlist!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2008100/Rule_the_Waves_3/

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