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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.
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.
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?
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/
Forum: https://aurora2.pentarch.org/
Wiki: https://aurorawiki.pentarch.org/index.php
Video (previous version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xhUGGEnJcU
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/
(Reference for those who are unfamiliar: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/08/excel-esports-on-espn...)
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Not everyone wants to play a game where Excel is a requirement.
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,…
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 some extent to track their game, so YMMV). The point is not every game needs visibility at the API level, so why should the game developers waste time providing it. My grandma's casino sim games don't need an API; wins and losses are tracked quite easily in the app. If you need an API and an external tool to play Farmville or some such, I think you're missing the point just a touch. Does my city building sim need an API? I guess I can think of a few things that an API could provide. Would I use it? Why, it's just a game.
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. If the game you like needs an API, everything need an API. Same mentality.
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…
As a Path of Exile player (another high complexity game, with market forces but less political intrigue), I wish we had more open APIs!
Do you mean in Path of Exile or in games in general? Afaik most of the economy stuff in PoE is behind an API that's relatively open(you have to request access, but you pretty much always get it).
The complexity in Path of Exile is less in the economy and more in build creation though. With tools like Path of Building that you can spend almost as many hours in as you're playing the actual game(or you just copy what someone else did like most people).
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/
A major downside is that these spreadsheets end up taking forever to update. You change one thing and wait five minutes for it to finish updating cells.
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 want a 4x space strategy game with a enterprise business software UI, then I'd recommend Aurora 4X. It's a great way to feel like a galactic bureaucrat. Forum: https://aurora2.pentarch.org/ Wiki: https://aurorawiki.pentarch.org/index.php Video (previous version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xhUGGEnJcU