9 ms·
EVE Online: Add-in for MS Excel
- _dan 3y agoThis is perfectly in the crossover between useful feature and top notch April Fools prank.
- Applejinx 3y agoYup. 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 :)
- moffkalast 3y agoThey say EVE is a spreadsheet simulator with some spaceships thrown in it, so you're probably right.
- Applejinx 3y agoMore like, EVE is real life espionage and power politics… except what's at stake is just pixels. The important stuff is so real you need spreadsheets to keep tabs on it all, but the consequences are pixels and video game numbers going up or down.
- tenpies 3y agoThe 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.
- jkaplowitz 3y agoThey even collaborated with the Excel team at Microsoft, including a quote on the announcement page from Excel’s Head of Product and participation from Microsoft in a recent livestream event.
- KyleBerezin 3y agoThey 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 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.
- jachee 3y agoI’ve been “winning Eve” (the only way is not to play) for nearly a decade, and the “used to” bit of this fact made me a bit sad.
- KyleBerezin 3y agoEhh, he is still living in Iceland, apparently he does work with fisheries now, which is probably pretty important for Icelandic people lol.
- mabbo 3y agoIf 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.)
- jeremyjh 3y agoIt depends on how you are playing the game. Spreadsheets are important everywhere, but for alliances holding territory in nullsec I'd argue leadership skills are the most the important. Its amazing how much you can learn about leadership from that game.
- samstave 3y agoI 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.
- yreg 3y agoIt'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!
- samstave 3y agoHe has tutorials on yt that are impressive in his speed and creating a model for the stocks he is trying to follow.
- b3lvedere 3y agohttps://www.nerfnow.com/comic/3174 https://www.nerfnow.com/comic/3174
- makach 3y agoan 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....
- Stranger43 3y agoHow 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?
- Etrnl_President 3y agoHave they implemented WIS?
- mewmew07 3y agoyes, but then they removed it because no one was using it
- slowmovintarget 3y agoThey never implemented multiplayer. They only let you walk around your own "Captain's Quarters." They had the whole stations, bars, clubs, traders, asteroid exploration, assassination... etc. designs, but they couldn't figure out how to get it off the ground in a clean way.
- Loveaway 3y agoNot bad at all. CCP is handling the game well, modernizing the client, UI etc. It's in a pretty good state. But it's also not so much different from what it was 10 years ago. Playing extremly casual these days though, maybe once a week I log in and do a site or something. It's just so relaxing, almost zen, worth the subscription for me. Happy this is still going.
- prmoustache 3y agoDoes excel/office365 support themeing? This lack some kind of sci-fi character without a dark background and neon fonts.
- inglor 3y agoInteresting, 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.
- civilitty 3y agoEmbraced extend extinguish null-sec.
- Titan2189 3y agoA 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/ https://prosperousuniverse.com/
- Drakim 3y agoProsperous Universe is really great, I highly recommend it. Prosperous Universe Honest Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODecu2voAh8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODecu2voAh8
- prox 3y agoHaha, that trailer is great.
- twoquestions 3y agoIf 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/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2008100/Rule_the_Waves_3/
- science4sail 3y agoIf 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/ https://aurora2.pentarch.org/ Wiki: https://aurorawiki.pentarch.org/index.php https://aurorawiki.pentarch.org/index.php Video (previous version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xhUGGEnJcU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xhUGGEnJcU
- giancarlostoro 3y agoNever seen this, but it looks like originally it was VB6 and he is working on (or has completed) a C# based remake. I recognized the form icon on the youtube video and nostalgia kicked in.
- czx4f4bd 3y agoThey should team up with the Financial Modeling World Cup and do a hybrid EVE/Excel esports event. (Reference for those who are unfamiliar: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/08/excel-esports-on-espn-show-world-the-pain-of-format-errors/ https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/08/excel-esports-on-espn...)
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- philsnow 3y agoKRAZAM has a good video about excel-as-esports, https://youtu.be/xubbVvKbUfY https://youtu.be/xubbVvKbUfY
- nntwozz 3y agoEVE Online, blurring the line yet again between game and full-time job.
- pnpnp 3y agoI 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.
- KyleBerezin 3y agoYea, 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.
- yreg 3y agoI never played it, probably never will. But I absolutely love reading stories about Eve. I love that such a place and player base exist.
- ajcp 3y agoThat's a little unfair, most people I know have at least some fun at their full-time job...
- thesuitonym 3y agoI'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!
- archon 3y agoI've had the same experience. Played multiple times, once for almost a year. The only thing that kept me playing that long was the good group of people on voice comms. I quit for the last time when I realized that life is too short to waste on a game I wasn't even enjoying (and that, frankly, stressed me out.)
- aeze 3y ago(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 immediately, versus having to work to have fun.
- sshagent 3y agoThis echos my thoughts precisely. I clocked up a lot of hours 2004 to 2009, and more casual for a couple of years after. I feel you have to really commit to this game to get the real fun out of it. And sadly i don't have entire nights free to dedicate to games any more...so I'm done with it. I still miss it, even now...but i know that ship has sailed.
- thesuitonym 3y agoActually, 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.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- antisthenes 3y agoAbout 15 years too late, but yeah, that was the running joke back when our group of friends played. EVE was always called a fancy Excel simulator.
- rizky05 3y ago[dead]
- inetknght 3y agoLet me know when this works on LibreOffice
- ericzawo 3y agoWhoa so fun!!!! I love using Excel for a videogame!!!!!
- zitterbewegung 3y agoI wonder if eventually Eve online will end up as a commercial logistics group and they just start buying ships and eve online makes a commercial version of the game.
- panzagl 3y agoSome sort of logistics-based version of "Ender's Game"...
- Already__Taken 3y agofirst-party makes this so cool. love to see the community engagement. If funcom realised the value auno.org was adding to anarchy online they could have pioneered this too just like f2p and advertising.
- RoyGBivCap 3y agoEVE has been called "spreadsheets in space" for years, so this is hilarious and the devs know it.
- idlewords 3y agoA friend of mine once described World of Warcraft as "spreadsheets in Middle Earth", permanently destroying my ability to play these games. In my mind I thank her for it every day.
- lostmsu 3y agoHave you ever played Enventory Sorter series?
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- sambeau 3y agoEVE Online: training AIs to run the Galactic Empire.
- rektide 3y agoThis 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 own world, that they don't seek to open up to allow more.
- kjs3 3y agoNot everyone wants to play a game where Excel is a requirement.
- mewmew07 3y agoI 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, don't be dense.
- tough 3y ago> 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
- reportgunner 3y agoMicrosoft Excel for Xbox ?
- wheybags 3y agoExcbox