<story><title>Eve Online is getting Microsoft Excel support</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/6/23059064/eve-online-fanfest-microsoft-excel</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rektide</author><text>Worth noting that EVE already has a fairly competent API[1]!&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s been a long time since I played but there was also a good range of tools to snarf in world data. For example as you navigated your spaceship around &amp;amp; looked at the various regional markets, the game would download effectively csv files, which were easy to look for &amp;amp; read. This lead to a market-data-gathering service called Eve Market Data Relay[2] where these files would be shared. And a website EVE Central for viewing. A couple years latter EVE created official API endpoints for this, but there still are third party services for market data[3]- tbh Im not sure why. Notably this wiki page already has advice for Excel integration!&lt;p&gt;Creating game-worlds which, like the real world, can often expose &amp;amp; share &amp;amp; make connectible their data &amp;amp; mechanisms is a frontier I keep hoping we see expand. Being able to modify &amp;amp; expand our experiences of gaming feels like a more unbounded creativity that I hope we get to play with.&lt;p&gt;I do wish CCP would make a server where people were free to explore bots &amp;amp; hacking the game client. For a while the python interpretter running the game client could be accessed &amp;amp; you could directly script you ship. &amp;quot;Go to this warp gate. Jump. Approach this enemy. Lock. Fire.&amp;quot; The idea that we could learn programming &amp;amp; explore artificial agency in such a rich universe was hughly compelling to me, is a vision I hope eve or some.other game eventually offers options in.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.eveuniversity.org&amp;#x2F;EVE_Swagger_Interface&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.eveuniversity.org&amp;#x2F;EVE_Swagger_Interface&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;gtaylor&amp;#x2F;EVE-Market-Data-Relay&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;gtaylor&amp;#x2F;EVE-Market-Data-Relay&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.eveuniversity.org&amp;#x2F;API_access_to_market_data&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.eveuniversity.org&amp;#x2F;API_access_to_market_data&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Eve Online is getting Microsoft Excel support</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/6/23059064/eve-online-fanfest-microsoft-excel</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>justusthane</author><text>Eve is a game that I love to read about, but have never played and probably never will. Same with DF.</text></comment>