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Re: EVE Online: Add-in for MS Excel

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Post by artemonster »

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…

is in on youtube? would love to see it

Re: EVE Online: Add-in for MS Excel

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Post by hospitalJail »

Goronmon wrote: post #60
hospitalJail wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As I get older and I've played every genre, I think few video games are fun. Many video games are addicting(stardew valley), many games invoke nostalgia(Nintendo/Zelda), some are slot machines(Diablo 3 and Starcraft Coop), etc... You wonder how many games are genuinely fun, and how many are marketed well and cause a network effect. Did people really like playing Madden 20xx and Call of Duty X? Or did 1 popular friend…

You wonder how many games are genuinely fun, and how many are marketed well and cause a network effect. Are you trying to approach entertainment as if there is some objective measure of "fun"? And how is this issue specific to games? Aren't movies, TV and books all subject to your same concerns?

>And how is this issue specific to games? Aren't movies, TV and books all subject to your same concerns?

Yes

Re: EVE Online: Add-in for MS Excel

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Post by hospitalJail »

haunter wrote: post #59
bkandel wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can't speak to all games, but I have found that the Mortal Kombat/Tekken style fighting games really aren't that much fun to me anymore. Smashing buttons is fun for like maybe ten minutes, but it gets boring real quick.

On the other hand Street Fighter VI is the perfect example how to reinvent the genre. The new campaign mode is really good and makes the game 100x better than any other previous title. Honestly japanese studios has an insane year in 2023 (Zelda, RE4 Remake, FFXVI, Armored Core VI, Street Fighter VI etc.)

>Honestly japanese studios has an insane year in 2023 (Zelda

Zelda TotK seems to be pretty disappointing from what I read. After BOTW I finally gave up playing every Zelda game.

Nintendo is the best when it comes to video game marketing, they basically brainwashed us since we were toddlers and they have a tight grip over mainstream reviews.

I don't know if TotK is good, but we won't be getting too much honest feedback until the hype dies down. Remember when people said BOTW was the greatest game of all time? That aged poorly.

Anyway, I am quite skeptical of people who put modern Zelda in their 'great' games list. They havent been a powerhouse since N64.

Re: EVE Online: Add-in for MS Excel

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Post by pnpnp »

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.

Re: EVE Online: Add-in for MS Excel

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Post by thesuitonym »

aeze wrote: post #49
thesuitonym wrote: post #44

I've bounced off of EVE three times now, and I've come to the conclusion that as much as I want to play the game, it's just not fun. Whoa there! Before you reply, remember that fun is relative to each person, what's fun for you is not necessarily fun for me!

(I'm not saying this applies to you at all, but you made me think of it) One thing EVE taught me is that some games provide more enjoyment the more you put into it. For me, I had to play 'hardcore' in EVE to really start to have fun - casual just didn't work and was never enjoyable. At this point in my life I just don't want to invest the time and energy to enjoy EVE. I like hopping into a game and having fun immedia…

Actually, the third time I went back to it, I had that same opinion, and you know, I did have some fun with it at first, but I think it was more the novelty of that type of gameplay than that I actually enjoyed doing it. About six months in I realized it was just a second job that I was paying to do, and decided not to play again.

In the end, I realized that my favorite part of EVE was just looking at the ships, but I can do that without playing.

Re: EVE Online: Add-in for MS Excel

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Post by thesuitonym »

Kinrany wrote: post #63
thesuitonym wrote: post #44

I've bounced off of EVE three times now, and I've come to the conclusion that as much as I want to play the game, it's just not fun. Whoa there! Before you reply, remember that fun is relative to each person, what's fun for you is not necessarily fun for me!

> Whoa there! Before you reply, remember that fun is relative to each person, what's fun for you is not necessarily fun for me! This whole part could have been replaced by adding "it's just not fun _for me_", and without making it sound like you do think the game is objectively not fun but don't want to defend it.

You'd think that, but in the past when I say I just don't enjoy it, or it's not fun for me, I get a bunch of replies about why I'm wrong and what I missed out on, and what I should do to make it fun.

Re: EVE Online: Add-in for MS Excel

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Post by samstave »

mabbo wrote: post #48
_dan wrote: post #5

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

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.

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