shuppy (@delan) — [archived]

generating an excel spreadsheet with javascript to help me play fallout: new vegas better

excel 2000 with dog clippy (rocky), showing a spreadsheet with my character build in yellow along the top (special 2, 10, 2, 3, 3, 10, 10, followed by my skills). below that, there’s a table of all of the base game regular perks, with how much more (or less) i need for each stat, a sum column that helps sort the list, and an ok column that says whether i am eligible. the three easiest perks i can become eligible for are “Rapid Reload”, “Friend of the Night”, and “Travel Light”. left: code for perks.html that parses a perks table in tsv format, and outputs a tsv with a column for each numeric stat requirement. right: the output of that program, ready to paste into an excel spreadsheet, showing stat values and formulas.

so i started writing a tool for fallout: new vegas that can tell me what perks i’m eligible for or nearly eligible for, sorted by how attainable they are.

anyway it’s an excel spreadsheet generated by javascript that parses a table i scraped from the fallout wiki :3