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by _dan 1096 days ago
This is perfectly in the crossover between useful feature and top notch April Fools prank.
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If you've ever played eve you realize that the most critical skill in the game is spreadsheet usage.

I'll bet Martin Shkreli would dominate at that game. (Yes, that Shkreli: search him on YouTube and marvel at his excel skills.)

It depends on how you are playing the game. Spreadsheets are important everywhere, but for alliances holding territory in nullsec I'd argue leadership skills are the most the important. Its amazing how much you can learn about leadership from that game.
I recall an article from a few years ago about a guy in the Mission in SF and his entire job was being the "accountant" for his guild - and he talked about he never logs into the game, just manages the resources of the guild via excel.

And yes, if you never seen Shkreli do exccel, youll be very impressed.

It's not like I don't believe you, but I scrolled through two of his videos where he used excel and I didn't notice anything unusual.

So if anyone has an example of some wizardry, please share!

He has tutorials on yt that are impressive in his speed and creating a model for the stocks he is trying to follow.
The fact that this isn't some mod or fan effort either, but a 100% no-malarky release from the actual developer, along with a manual, template, and tutorials; is absolutely amazing.
They even collaborated with the Excel team at Microsoft, including a quote on the announcement page from Excel’s Head of Product and participation from Microsoft in a recent livestream event.
They used to employ a full time economist, Dr. Eyjolfur Guðmundsson. He was great, he would prepare quarterly economic reports https://cdn1.eveonline.com/community/QEN/QEN_Q4-2010.pdf

They really are a sight to behold. Eventually they got simpler, then annual. They do them monthly now, but Guðmundsson isn't part of it and they are really nothing more than data dumps with some automated infographs.

I’ve been “winning Eve” (the only way is not to play) for nearly a decade, and the “used to” bit of this fact made me a bit sad.
Ehh, he is still living in Iceland, apparently he does work with fisheries now, which is probably pretty important for Icelandic people lol.
Yup. I know just enough about EVE to know that this is not, in the least, a joke… but for all that, it's funny as hell :)
They say EVE is a spreadsheet simulator with some spaceships thrown in it, so you're probably right.
More like, EVE is real life espionage and power politics… except what's at stake is just pixels. The important stuff is so real you need spreadsheets to keep tabs on it all, but the consequences are pixels and video game numbers going up or down.
I know there have been lots of spies but are there any documented cases of double or triple agents?
I don't see why not. It's a big userbase, and again, the consequences aren't nearly as great as those for real-life double and triple agents.