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So I've thrown this together after some effort. It's not very well-written or styled atm but it functions! Thought it would be an interesting excuse to familiarize myself with available variants. Work in progress, I'm pretty sure I've changed some things just since this screenshot (like unnecessary decimals) but the PC is down for the night lol.

Any input/advice? The picks are all kinda with ComStar in mind fwiw. Models from AGOAC, Mercenaries, and some force packs.

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (3 children)

You could always use Eve to learn excel.

[–] Robotsandstuff@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Don't do Eve it's like boring crack I ended up running a 200-man faction warfare corp it's a second job there's no such thing as a casual

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

What, EVE Online? I'm good thanks XD

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They have an excel interface in that game. Go figure.

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Heh I didn't know it had an interface for that. I played it a tiny bit in the late 00s, a good summer or so flying frigates with the Reddit Corp. Enough to know what the game's about and that I'm probably not up for it really :) I thought the spreadsheets jokes were mostly born from a) having to track so many things you might as well make spreadsheets with macros and b) the out-of-game app stuff where you train your skills in real time kinda felt like that already

How does it work with Excel?

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

EVE definitely helped my API programming!

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Did you automate your skill progression or something? I'm curious

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You can't write to the skill queue endpoints, only the official mobile app can do that, sadly.

I'm in Human Resources for my corporation, and made some tools with the API to assist in investigating applicants for potential spying etc.

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's so much cooler you were literally doing counterintelligence

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

I am indeed. For the big Nullsec alliance is a major aspect of security. There are tons of spies and thieves. It's one of the more exciting parts of the meta game!