Embarrased to admit it, but I use a spreadsheet to keep track of my toons

[Falensawino]

Eve online and ogame are great for spreadsheets.

 

I got told off by a guild leader when I showed him my google docs spreadsheet for our dinky clan where I was promoted to officer, "you're over complicating things, this is just a game."

Edited May 23, 2016 by Falensawino

[CloudCastle]

I keep track of their appearance numbers so when I make a new toon I can make sure they look different from the others.

 

Oh, I wish I had done this! I often jot down the numbers temporarily while I'm testing out looks for a new char, but then I toss it. I have a thing about always trying to choose different faces and stuff, and sometimes it's hard not to choose the same thing I used in the past by mistake.

[Longmaverick]

Please tell me someone else keeps track of their toons using a spreadsheet. I've 32 toons on the sub account and 6 on the FTP account. On the main account, I keep track of server, guild, char name, level, species, alignment, class, subclass, role (tan/dps/heal), crafting, and 6 columns for the crew skills (I have an x in a column if a toon has the skill).

 

Too nerdy or just nerdy enough for a large collection of toons?

 

You're not the only one, I had to do the same thing once I got over 50 toons. Couldn't keep track of each one lol.

[Uruare]

I wish I had time to get invested enough in heavy activities across all my characters sufficiently to make spreadsheeting useful.

 

I totally would if I had more consistent time to play though.

[KevinQCowart]

Spreadsheets are for the laymen, real nerds use comma or tab delimited text files.

[xordevoreaux]

Oh, I wish I had done this! I often jot down the numbers temporarily while I'm testing out looks for a new char, but then I toss it. I have a thing about always trying to choose different faces and stuff, and sometimes it's hard not to choose the same thing I used in the past by mistake.

 

For the appearances that I really like, I take a screen shot while zoomed into the character's face in the character gen screen to show the numbers, and then just keep the screenshots with the face next to the selection of appearance options in a folder.

[IanArgent]

Spreadsheets are for the laymen, real nerds use comma or tab delimited text files.

 

Which are spreadsheets, just with limited formatting options.

[LyraineAlei]

I don't use a spreadsheet (though it would make more sense to) but for my... *does math* wait, I really have that many across four servers? Oh, wait, no, those are my transfer alts that I just transfer (or used to when they were 90 CC) to spread acheivios and crons around (thank the stars I had gotten the Tat Balloon long before the transfers were cheap, I can knock those off my list forever). Still, over forty characters...

 

Anyway, I don't use a spreadsheet, I use (word doc) character sheets for personality traits and to keep track of how I play each character and a powerpoint for each planet storyline to keep the ones I play as a group all together because they're connected in a complex web that took some twenty notebook (small, about 6x4 sized) pages to keep track of because I still can't find a web map program that I like that is free.

 

 

Ex. My Main-Main, Lyraine (MercHeal) is married to my Main Pub Jedi Knight of the Republic MarockLuxson (GuardTank), was hired by Darth Colein (JuggDips) who is married to her defector husband Major Chisher (nickname, Mikail was taken at the time, Comm) and has a defector daughter Aishilynne (ConsHeal). Colein is Darth Wrath Toryah's (JuggerTank) true mentor and Toryah is allied with the Great Healer of Nar Shaddaa Darth Imperious Ahnauh (InqHeal). Ahnauh is rivals/friends with Barsen'thor Jatora (ConsHeal), who is friends with Hero of Tython Nysteria (GuardiTank). Nysteria is played like a force sensitive who was discovered as an adult when she was a soldier (so she winds up more dark sided), and respects squads like Havoc Squad lead by Major Pixil. Pixil(CommHeal) is the younger sister of Voidhound Jarote(HealerSmugg) and the older sister of Sher'ika who had been under the guardianship of Republilc's Most Wanted Sophria (MercHeal). Sophria is the daughter of Cipher (Operative) Adilies. Smuggling Captain Edya (Guns) works for Darth Colein after a boarding party incident, so Edya runs Colein's spy network.

 

Sergeant Elfaiya (CommanDips) is from the same planet as Pixil, Sher'ika, Jarote, but joined the Pub military because Aishilynne saved her and her family's life when she was younger (about Act 2, I play her as if she signed up during KotFE time, but she's still level 7 since I haven't played her a long time). I have a smuggler who fits with her story but don't remember his name since he was rolled after I made the sheets in the first place...

 

Jump ahead about fifteen years from KotFE's start, Toryah and Malavai Quinn are the parents of Aavon. Pierce and LS Jaessa are the parents of Teraessa (InqHeal) and Chordan (WarJ), who are friends with Aavon (Snipe) despite Aavon's lack of Force powers. Captain Elfaiya is leading Chaos Squad that General Pixil Jorgan started, and recruited the sniper Jax'ika Jorgan (DPS Van) (her name's Jaxo, but her mando-adopted aunt calls her Jax'ika, used it to get around the name thing pre-spacebar in names days). Sher'ika (Powertank) is a respected member of Clan Cadera and spends most of her time on Taris having fun watching Aavon as he is stuck taking orders from Commander Pierce while working with the grandson (headcannon, don't wanna roll this one) of the Moff who exiled Quinn to Balmorra.

 

 

... *cough* so, I have word documents and powerpoints. And powerpoint slides for each server listing characters and crew skills. I have several hundred pages of fic written but never posted because it's not a fully coherent thing and I still have to reconstruct parts from my screenshots...

 

oh wait, I mean... uh...

 

NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRD!!!

Who keeps track of stuff like that?!

 

 

i should totally barrow the idea of keeping track of inventory stuff across legacies and really should make a bank alt to keep me from spending my Yavin Stronghold Savings Creds on even more armor...

[idnewton]

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting

Why does something tell me this philosophy extends to BioWare as well? "The supreme art of game design is to subdue the playerbase without working."

[Sheikai]

I personally use a spreadsheet saved on Google Sheets that I keep track of things like levels, crew skills, role, class, guild, faction, KotFE chapter progress, augmented, and priority.

[ImmortalLowlife]

With as many characters as I have (around 32 or so across 2 servers), I could really use a spreadsheet. But I absolutely hate paperwork and I refuse to voluntarily add more to the crap ton I have to deal with IRL. lol

 

I tend to keep it simple. I only have 4 crafters, and everybody else has various gathering skills. Everyone except the crafters has slicing. One character on each server is the "bank". They get all money over 200000 from all characters, & handel all CM purchases. I craft things I need & sell mats on the GTN. But this way, I don't have nearly as much to keep up with. Story wise....all my characters are named after people I've known most of my life. They all "act" like their namesake lol.

 

 

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting

 

I'd go with that one personally....

Edited May 24, 2016 by ImmortalLowlife

[AussieAlan]

I wish I had of thought of keep track of marriages sooner, I can't not remember which of my toons flirted and locked in a romance with Lana.

[Forgettableone]

28 Chars and I'd be lost without mine

Tab 1 - Tracks who's up'd the companions to 10 before taking the toon into FE & those who've started it.

 

Tab 2 - Tracks:- Faction, Char type, Crystals, "up to" point, romance pre FE and post, advanced class & spec, Vehicle in use (trying to personalise each once), Alignment, WZ comms and fleet comms and a "last updated" column

 

Tab 3 - More visual version of the "up to" - so in most cases it's pre FE or the chapter they last finished.

 

Tab 4 - Bank tracker - generic guide to item type in each bank tab (mats/deco/sellable armour etc) and coinage on

each toon (colour formatted in case I need to move monies around - I like them all to have half a mil at all times)

 

Tab 5 - Crew Skills - colour formatted to easily find what's below a certain number/needs work.

 

Tab 6 - Gear tracker - mod by mod for each slot with augs, relics and implants.

 

Tab 7 - Pre FE companion influence (will eventually get deleted when everyone's gone into FE)

 

Tab 8 - Post FE companion influence - tracks everyone from story granted, to star fortresses and companion alerts

 

Tab 9 - Star fortress tracker - who's done what so far and if it was solo or heroic.

 

Tab 10- Vehicle Tracker - every vehicle I own and which char it's on (mostly for the show garage so I can make sure everything I have is out)

 

Tab 11 - assembly piece Tracker - who's got what stocks of items and amounts of mats/units needed per craft etc.

 

Tab 12 - Gearing Tracker - used in conjunction with 11 for mass crafting

 

I really should add a Decision tracker for the those who haven't gone into FE yet - I've taken 8 through and can't remember who's made which decisions

For anyone thinking about starting a spreadsheet do it - and you can never have enough colour formatting, it makes spotting areas that need work on sooooo much easier

Edited May 26, 2016 by Forgettableone

[Cawyden]

I use a spreadsheet too - but only one sheet.

 

It contains a small picture of every character and the following information:

- name

- class

- faction (rep/imp)

- advanced class

- class specialisation (e.g. lightning for sorcerer)

- race

- alignment (LS/DS/neutral)

- spouse

- children

- color (each character has a certain color scheme)

- crafting skills

- inventory (I use different characters to store different items like mounts, pets, armor sets....)

[Jedi_riches]

By the way I have my characters set out it's fairly easy to know most of my characters info without the need of a spreadsheet as I know without looking which character is my 'main' for that class, I only have 8 crafting toons anyway which I set on my mains (I double up on Synthweaving and Armourmech just so I can see the Rep/Imp visuals for the gear) all alts of these classes get the same crew skills minus the crafting one which I replace with slicing.

 

I did however plan all this out originally using a spreadsheet so that I knew exactly what I was doing with my characters ahead of time, this included what race I was going to choose for each character and what crew skills they would have (I have planned up to 32 characters in total which comes from 1 male character and 1 female character of each advanced class).

 

I could possibly use a speadsheet to take inventory of my individual characters cargo holds, but that would require sorting out as I have all sorts of junk in there anyway most of which is probably scrappable.

[Darevsool]

I made up a spreadsheet for tracking all of my toons that are lvl 65. Basically just one tab per server. Tracks the type of gear and level of mods in it (yellow cell color (216/216/216)) for armoring/mod/enhancement in each labeled column.

Yellow = legacy gear that can be shared, purple = gear from cystal vendor, orange = regular orange shell armor or CM armor.

 

I also have a section for keeping track of which toon has done the weekly conquest events (if any) / heroics / and the various weeklies of the "dailies" such as cz198.

I also keep track of how many crystals (of each type) each toon has.

 

There's a section for the RE'd high end schematics learned.

What part of the story each toon is on

 

 

I do this for toons across 4 servers currently, with templates for 2 more servers where I have mostly unused toons.

Edited May 26, 2016 by Darevsool

[IanArgent]

Nothing wrong with using spreadsheets to manage characters. If you're using pivot tables, though, you might want to re-examine your life choices

[bdpoole]

Please tell me someone else keeps track of their toons using a spreadsheet. I've 32 toons on the sub account and 6 on the FTP account. On the main account, I keep track of server, guild, char name, level, species, alignment, class, subclass, role (tan/dps/heal), crafting, and 6 columns for the crew skills (I have an x in a column if a toon has the skill).

 

Too nerdy or just nerdy enough for a large collection of toons?

 

I also use a spreadsheet to keep track of my toons. I have 4 pages. First pages tracks Conquest points, Crystals, credits and crafting. Second pages tracks Set gear. Third tracks Operations gear Bosses, and the last page tracks Companion influence.

[Holocron]

I really enjoyed reading this thread and was trying to think of an appropriate quote - couldn't decide between these two. Thoughts?

 

1. There is a time to fight and there is a time to be clever
   
2. The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting
   

 

I usually subdue my enemies with my ability to file TPS reports.

Edited May 26, 2016 by Holocron

[ikinai]

I usually subdue my enemies with my ability to file TPS reports.

 

I'm gonna have to have you come in on Saturday...

[LyraineAlei]

Because of this thread, I'm now using a spreadsheet to track when I last did which heroics/weeklies for a week and where characters are like my server immigrants. And crew skills.

[Rantank]

Due to this thread I went and took another look at my spreadsheet. Now my single spreadsheet has morphed into 9 tabs and I learned a hell of a lot more than I wanted to about spreadsheets.

[Holocron]

I'm gonna have to have you come in on Saturday...

 

Have you seen my stapler?

[Nyla]

After refusing to do one for years because i'm lazy (keeping very basic informations on paper), I'm now starting one.

 

I got 2 accounts with 22 and 27 characters I just transfered to the same server, kinda lost with the name changes...

 

Considering I have 500+ upper/lower/supplementary armor boxes, 250 single armor items + a bunch of other cartel items, I need to find/make a cartel market/collection spreadsheet for each legacy and know what to unlock or sell.

 

Off topic but thanks BW for the new stack size for crafting materials, I can put every crafting materials in my legacy bank and access them from any toon.