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DaBoid
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Spreadsheets are in my DNA. I don’t know who mentioned spreadsheets first, but from my early days in PiggyLand, I started a spreadsheet to track my scores. It’s just second nature. I’ve been working with spreadsheets since 1982 starting with SuperCalc on my Osborne One.

Actually, I love my job. It’s brain candy. I don’t have to go to meetings, I don’t have to deal with the public, I just sit in my little chair and code all day. Love it. (In answer to @gelfling’s pity. I don’t need no stinking pity.)

I don’t mind paying for a game that I enjoy. What I do mind are these open-ended payments.

For example, the Mighty Eagle was sold as a one-time purchase for unlimited Eagles. When the level was particularly tough, I could fling Eagle after Eagle until that magic “100%” appeared. Then, they came out with the Space Eagle. You have to pay actual money to buy X amount of Space Eagles and when you run out, due to a difficult level, it’s back to the credit card for more. I hate that. Rovio has a financial incentive to make Space levels as difficult as possible for the Space Eagle, not just for gameplay fun.

The character swaps in SW2 are similar. I set up my spreadsheet to see what characters were NOT in the normal play, in other words, what characters I am obliged to swap in order to meet their minimum scores. I calculated how much each 10-character bundle costs and how many points I could clear from “guaranteed” levels (P2-4 is excellent) and then realized that mathematically I did not have enough coin of the realm to buy characters and clear their levels, even assuming everything went according to plan.

Grrr.

Then they came out with the coins and the carbonite melts. I have been carefully tracking my progress and at this point I believe I have enough coins to clear the remaining character levels ASSUMING EVERYTHING GOES RIGHT, which is a foolish assumption. In addition, we still have an unknown remaining level with ? numbers of new characters and ? numbers of coins. Will there be 1000-914=86 coins? More? Less?

So, I’m hoarding my coins and patiently letting carbonite melts provide me with characters for free. I’ve picked up a few levels that way. (Curse you, Mace Windu, for messing up with my last precious shot, leaving me with 93% of the desired score.)

I can be patient.