Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Set any property value to a cell.
Dynamically updated market values.
All your work safely stored in your game account.
There's not much else to say about it besides please.
You know you want it. So please...

Google docs works in the IGB last time I tried it.

All those solutions require you to use different systems from different companies to build and store your spreadsheets. Besides none of those lets you directly import a game value without going through a complicated process of setting up a database and a connection to an API to gather the data.
If CCP could implement a simple spreadsheet, with only the most basic operations, but that could import values from both item attributes and the market that would be heaven for players.


It's weird to read that, Commander Ted, because EvE is infamously knows as spreadsheets in space. That may sound like a criticism but anyone that plays industry knows that's really what it's about, and we love it. Why not have an in-game tool that we can use for that purpose? The first time I played EvE I found it strange that there was an in-game calculator, but with little time it made perfect sense.

nah it crashes it now

You obviously never used a spreadsheet in your life. It's one of the simplest pieces of software one can build. It exists practically since the born of computers. It is just a bunch of slots for data with a small formula filter on each one. The rest of it is just fancy graphical functionality I personally don't care about. There's no possible way for it to present a security issue to the game.

I shouldn't need to use third party tools for such a trivial job. EvE industrial players NEEDS this. Whoever says he doesn't need a spreadsheet to play industry is probably doing it wrong.

Alt-tab doesn't allow you to dynamically import market values.

Eve-central uses cached data files. Such use has been declared against the EULA by CCP but they said they wouldn't take any actions against prolific members of the community. There's also CREST but it's not documented and I'm not sure it's market API is even out yet. Anyway, those are WAY more complicated methods than just clicking and dragging a market value into an in-game spreadsheet cell.

That's ridiculous. You're reporting because you're a douchebag. I already got a thread locked for no reason because people don't like the way I discuss. Please link where I was discussing spreadsheets in-game. I only suggested it, realized it was a good idea for a new discussion and opened this thread. What a dork.

1 - That thread is locked.
2 - It suggests Google docs functionality inside the IGB wich is not what I suggested.
3 - Apparently, from what people posted in the thread we're discussing now, the IGB is being discontinued.

It really sucks when people are so diligently dedicated to put down an idea without really taking it into consideration for reasons that have nothing to do with the idea itself.

This is not a reasonable argument. Not only because spreadsheets are easy to develop but also because you can evoke it upon any suggestion. "No, I don't like this idea, devs should work in another thing".