EVE Online’s ‘spreadsheets in space’ are getting official Excel love

The unbelievable complexity managing CCP Video games’ massively multiplayer EVE On-line house sim has drawn comparisons to “spreadsheets in house’ for a lot of its twenty years. Now, it’s a actuality. Microsoft and CCP Video games introduced a partnership permitting gamers to truly export their data to Microsoft Excel.

CCP Video games made the announcement at its 2022 Eve Fanfest keynote deal with, which drew cheers and laughter when artistic director Bergur Finnbogason introduced the brand new options. The EVE On-line neighborhood held its first in-person neighborhood occasion in Reykjavik, Iceland for the reason that starting of the pandemic.

“You actually actually actually make EVE sound like spreadsheets in house,” Finnbogason stated. “It’s arduous to be a artistic director when you might have all this spreadsheet lovin’.”

In-game firms spend a variety of effort and time dedicating information to forming alliances, mining, and extra, Finnbogason stated. “And the economics of establishing these techniques could be fairly daunting for small teams. With this in thoughts we reached out to our associates at Microsoft Excel. I’m not mendacity. We reached out they usually’re like, ‘Oh my god, we love EVE!’”

So the 2 firms made it occur.

“By way of the Microsoft partnership, EVE gamers can add a JavaScript API in Excel to seamlessly export information from EVE On-line,” CCP Video games stated in a press launch. “Excel function compatibility will assist gamers entry and calculate all the pieces from revenue margins to battle technique, making day-to-day EVE operations simpler to execute. The Microsoft integration is one other step towards CCP’s aim of constructing the MMO extra accessible for each informal and seasoned gamers. Extra details about the Microsoft partnership can be accessible later this yr.”

In different {hardware} information, CCP Video games introduced help for 2 AMD applied sciences, particularly help for FidelityFX Tremendous Decision, which improves whole framerate by intelligently reducing the decision on sure components of the scene, and FreeSync help. Each options may also be added to the EVE shopper later this yr.