COURSE

Economy Balancing Spreadsheet Lab

$135.00

Balance prices and drop rates in a spreadsheet before they are hard to change in code.

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Balance prices and drop rates in a spreadsheet before they are hard to change in code. Across about 9 hours you will list the items and their prices, write the chance of a common and a rare drop, keep the sheet as the source of the numbers, and explain the sheet in five minutes.

Intermediate · 9 hours · Monetization

Curriculum

Module 1 · Prices

  1. List the items and their prices
  2. Set the currency a player earns per session
  3. See how many sessions a purchase takes
  4. Mark a price no one can reach

Module 2 · Drop rates

  1. Write the chance of a common and a rare drop
  2. Simulate twenty rewards
  3. Check for a streak that feels broken
  4. Change one rate

Module 3 · Before code

  1. Keep the sheet as the source of the numbers
  2. Name the cells a designer may edit
  3. Do not hide a formula
  4. Export the numbers for engineering

Module 4 · A review

  1. Explain the sheet in five minutes
  2. Find one number you cannot justify
  3. Adjust it
  4. Save the version you will implement
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