https://prosperousuniverse.com is closer, but still not actually a spreadsheet.
reply"This is EVE Online for people who think the 3D spaceships part of EVE is time wasted away from their spreadsheets. "
I got way into Prosperous Universe for a few months, a few years back—it was fun for awhile but the pace at which new features were being added to the game was (and still seems to be) absolutely glacial, given what the game is. Really fun ideas in there, though.
replyThere's been some new features in the past few years. But you're right that the general pace of new features is slow. There's only about 0.8 developers working on the game.
replyHowever, if you're the type of person that likes to work on spreadsheets to calculate profit margins and market trends, Prosperous Universe is worth checking out.
MMOSS (Massive Multiplayer Online Screen Saver) is what I've always seen it as. Beautiful game. Not for the faint of heart .
replyJokes aside apparently they've hired economist to keep the game's market's stable.
replyThis was at least a decade ago, but the game's economy seems to be managed well enough. Cost of having stuff transported is still 1M / jump.
replyPLEX keeps the markets stable now as they control the flow of PLEX like its Spice from Arrakis
replyWasn't that Yanis Varoufakis?
replyNope, Varoufakis consulted with Valve
replyAh, that's correct.
replyGot it wrong, because he did write some articles about the EVE economy, like this one: https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2014/01/30/war-spikes-in-the-...
He has however written about the game before, and been interviewed about it: https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2014/01/30/war-spikes-in-the-...
replythat's very interesting, is there a place to read his achievements related to Steam? genuinely curious, because Steam is very popular now, and wondering what he did there, and whether his theories helped boost Steam economy/marketplace or not
replyI thought it was played on the forums? That’s where the nullsec alliance game was played in my day.
replyYes, but you can turn a visual representation on by pressing ctrl+shift+f9.
replyit used to be, but it's been less and less perverse over the past ten to fifteen years.
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