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Re:Eve Online fans cheer Microsoft Excel features at annual ... by amalcon on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @10:08AM (#31327312)
Almost all of them. Back when I used to play Kingdom of Loathing (a super casual game whose main attraction is that it contains a lot of jokes), I used spreadsheets to optimize everything from which food to eat to which familiar to use when. Way back in the day, I wrote a (for me-at-the-time) math-heavy guide for the N64 Goldeneye game; I used spreadsheets for that.

I know of people who've used spreadsheets for routing speedruns of games you wouldn't think you could optimize that way (e.g. entries in the Mario Kart series).

Re:Eve Online fans cheer Microsoft Excel features at annual ... by vintagedave on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @10:24AM (#31327496)
Do you still have a copy of the Goldeneye guide? I'd be curious to read it. Math was not in my mind when I played it back in the day.
Re:Eve Online fans cheer Microsoft Excel features at annual ... by amalcon on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @10:26AM (#31327519)
I don't, but GameFaqs still does. Keep in mind that 1999-me was... not a great writer, or particularly good at math, by HN standards.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/n64/197462-goldeneye-007/faqs/...

Re:Eve Online fans cheer Microsoft Excel features at annual ... by pedrosorio on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @12:48PM (#31329308)
"If you want to know what Perfect Dark is, just do a search for it (I used Yahoo and got tons of hits, and the game's not even out yet)"

Feels like getting out of a time-machine :)

Re:Eve Online fans cheer Microsoft Excel features at annual ... by forgotpwd16 on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @11:19AM (#31328154)
>Almost all of them.

For any game that can be optimized in some way someone has made a spreadsheet for it.

Re:Eve Online fans cheer Microsoft Excel features at annual ... by ElvisTrout on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @11:12AM (#31328060)
Hey fellow KOLer! It was a spreadsheet heavy game for sure. Good times.