Player Features and Ideas Discussion

We need an in-game macro builder. Like a small spreadsheet that we can customize special calculations with our own formulas. and then we can right click on them to activate.

For example If I wanted to know how long it would take for me to get to an object, I could right click on it, and select a "Time to intercept" macro, which would simply take my ships current speed x .1, then take the distance to the object (in Kilometers) and divide by (my ships speed x .1) then divide by 60 which would give me the number of minutes to the target.

We all use spreadsheets so much anyway, so why not have them built into the game, just like the browser and calculator and notepad. All calculations would be done on the local machine. but you could save the "worksheets" or save them as a macro, to be used by you or somebody else in your corporation.

Comments?

Historically, they probably weren't thought of back when the game code was first being developed.

Some things like the in game browser, mail, calendar and calculator were, but I guess that in game spreadsheets, variables and a series of macro's was either not important or the early developers didn't want to spend the time developing that expertise.

Now however, my comment would be, CCP should continue doing what they do best and for other aspects like spreadsheets, there are already alternatives that EvE could never hope to match and/or a third-party developer community that provide some of these tools.

its called "botting"

he didn't even read OP

Haha

Enough spreadsheets already…Give me eye candy!!

useful for high-sec gankers tracking freighters.

this is efficiency - can the ganker gank freighter A, loot it, and be in tim to intercept freighter B on a different route?

It was just one such example, but market calculations could be another use for it. I for example have a spreadsheet I use to calculate payout to players who participate in wormhole sleeper operations. The spreadsheet takes into account, the number of waves that each pilot participated, the total number of pilots involved, and the total sale of all the loot.

Then of course there are others, like calculating the coordinate of attack points for stealth bombers, a specific distance away from a target, yet not rick damaging other bombers (via bomb drop) or accidently decloaking them (not in same fleet).

Another example would be to calculate the amount of time it takes you in a specific ship to get from one system to another. Acceleration varies from ship to ship and fit to fit. Speed of warp also varies, as does inertia, and the distance between gates. Wouldn't it be nice to have a macro where you simply select and it gives your ETA to the other fleet that are meeting you there? Or ETA to the other ship that just sent our an S.O.S.?

Think of the possibilities.

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You must admit, however, that an automated meal planner might be the only way some members of the community actually get advice on what to eat other than pork rinds and cheap beer.