Eve Online fans really rave regarding Microsoft Excel’s features at the annual Fanfest
Yes, yes, it sounds exciting and all, but the spreadsheets are in place Real work happens.
There aren’t many games where the built-in integration with Microsoft Excel will be a major feature that the ad will elicit cheers from fans. But eve online It showed itself as an exception when the CCP developer announced the approaching of Excel integration During the main performance of Eve Fanfest this morning.
Through a formal partnership with Microsoft, CCP said it was creating a JavaScript API that would allow players to “smoothly export data from eve online“The famous spreadsheet program.” It will help players access and calculate everything from profit margins to battle strategy and daily execution evening “Operations are easier to perform,” the company said. press release.
“It’s not April, it’s real” eve online The creative director, Birgor Finbogason, said onstage, and he laughed in response. “I’m not lying – in fact we resorted to it [Microsoft] And they were like, Oh God, we love evening! “
Spreadsheets in space!
jokingly mentions to eve onlineReputation of the simulator “spreadsheets in space”. old date finished well a necklace at this point. And CCP relied on that reputation at Fanfest, when Pinbogason joked that a data-packed presentation on the game’s economy by CCP Larikin Data Scientist “Really, really, really, really[s] Eve sounds like “spreadsheets in space.” It’s hard to be a creative manager sometimes when the whole spreadsheet loves it. “
Despite this, Finbogason went on to admit that “data is very important for many advanced gameplay styles in evening. “And that is true; Lots of players and companies in the game to use foreign instruments and spreadsheets to track resource production and destruction metrics to the smallest detail. Tracking this data can be the key to efforts to maximize in-game coins, and that, in turn, can be Trade for additional subscription time per game in the open market.
However, at Fanfest, Finnbogason noted that “the initial cost of creating this [data-tracking] Systems can be very daunting for small groups.” eve online He said the data should “simplify access to data for everyone” and “align the playing field when it comes to security tools”.
“Whether you satisfy your curiosity, augment your industrial enterprise, or run your war on the front lines, creating the tools for your promotion is in your hands,” he said.
CCP really helps data-obsessed gamers Monthly reports stock charts For everything from resource mining productions to regional NPC awards. Everything is part of the community ongoing And surprisingly successful A two-decade effort to effectively manage the complex game economy. The goal, as CCP LaRikin put it on stage at Fanfest, is to create a “fair distribution of resources” that will lead to more player satisfaction and better representation. While a short presentation of eve onlineAxel’s integration with Excel sparked legitimate cheers from the Fanfest audience, with Finbogason saying the API tools are still in the “early stages” and that the company “will be involved later this year.” However, Finnbogason added that “this is pretty wild stuff,” and we have to agree.
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