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    Building an EVE Online Spreadsheet of my own

    Hi everyone. For those That play EVE online im building my own spreadsheet for PI.
    For those that don't know what it is (its a game) can you assist me in a few problems?

    I need to show a flow chart of numbers associated with production values.
    get a pen this gets interesting!

    The production flows as this:
    3000 of product (e) makes 20 units of product (c)
    3000 of (f) makes 20 (d)
    then,
    40 of product (c) combined with 40 of (d) makes 5 of product (b)
    Finally;
    10 of product (b) makes 3 of product (a)

    if i want to build 6 of product (a), it needs to show how many of all the others i need in their respective multiples- as 2000 of product (e) will not make (c). Also, only when (c) and (d) are combined in multiples of 40 does it make 5 of product (b)

    wheres the problem?
    WELL, in order to make product (a) it needs to be formatted to only show the closest value of three, and echo down the associated cells ; so i need to know how to format the cell thus.
    also, it takes 10 of product (b) and 10 of product (c) in order to make 3 (a)'s. i want the product (a) to be an open cell, for the user to place their desired quantity in, and have the product (b) and (c) cells show in quantities of 10 (directly related to the product (a) cell).

    endstate: if i put in that i want 100 of product (a), it shows me how many i need of all the products.

    anyone able to follow me through all that?

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    Re: Building an EVE Online Spreadsheet of my own

    Hi Frazer and welcome to the forum,

    This is called a system of equations. If there is a solution it can be solved using Simultaneous Equations. See:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_of_linear_equations
    Excel has the ability to do this problem using a matrix. Time to get your pencil out and learn Simultaneous Equations.
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    Re: Building an EVE Online Spreadsheet of my own

    CERTAINLY!
    will try but if you can shortcut and do it while im learning them that would be dandy also (clearly im super lazy

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    Re: Building an EVE Online Spreadsheet of my own

    this is what i have ATM:

    (e) or/and (f) = 3000
    (c)= 3000/150 or 20c= e/150 (same applies for (f), i.e 20d= f/150)
    then, 5b= (20c*2) + (20d*2)
    and finally; 3a= 2(5b)

    anything wrong with these forms? what term should they be in? should i simplify (a) all the way down to (e) and (f)?
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    Re: Building an EVE Online Spreadsheet of my own

    Here is a start....

    3000e = 20c
    3000f = 20d
    40c + 40d = 5b
    10b = 3a

    Bad news - this looks like 4 equations with 6 unknowns. The answer will not be exact. Or the answer is will a plane, depending on how you look at it.

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    SO, i know 3a=10b
    10b= 80d+80c
    80d= 12000f and 80c= 12000e.
    so how do i get a number entered into field (a) to reflect the numbers i need in all other fields using excel? which formula/command do i use?

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    i have a number entered into cell for (a). its 3 (to make it simple :p ) to discover what b needs to be and have it rounded to the nearest 10, i have made it: f=MROUND(( product a's cell /0.3333333333333),10)

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    Re: Building an EVE Online Spreadsheet of my own

    Ok Fraser_01,

    Here would be my next step in doing this using Excel - see attached


    My concern is that you need more equations or less unknowns to solve this puzzle.

    The rule is you need as many "independent" equations as you have unknowns for there to be a unique answer.

    You aren't given enough information to solve this problem. It is like me asking this question. "A train is traveling 50 miles per hour. How far did it go?"
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    so i think i have nailed it.
    if the user wants to know all the resources needed for the amount he wants to make of (a), it is now all displayed.

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    Re: Building an EVE Online Spreadsheet of my own

    And this is what i get.
    Now i have a new problem. I wish to create a tick box to the far right that will include/exclude products and thus create a total amount of dollars to the right.
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