Fun With Excel

(Actually its the Open Office Excel clone, but I can't even remember it's name...)

Saturday night I got my development environment under Windows XP in workable shape (I won't say it is totally working, because there still seem to be some oddities).

I then started to look into the regression.

I am trying to run the regression like a real game, which means all the micro-management entailed in a new game (part of the reason for NewStars was the hope of eventually automating the micro-management).

I have a spreadsheet (the famous STARS!.xls), which allows for colony planning.

The spreadsheet is incredible, and is invaluable for checking the server code.

I found a bug regarding partial completion. Imagine a factory built 1 resource at a time, over 10 turns. The factory costs 4 germ. How do you subtract the 4 G, and not 0 or 10. Our code was subtracting 0...

After I fixed that, I found a (what I think is) a bug in the spreadsheet!

So, I spent all day looking at spreadsheets, and ending up starting a new spreadsheet.

Fun! Fun!