The xls format makes a little more sense to me, at least it's more readable at a glance than the csv dump. Although the csv does have more readable ship names in it. Some of the abbreviations that the excel dump uses can be kind of hard to puzzle out. I hadn't considered beta vs official releases, but that's a good point. Obviously not everyone is automatically clicking that update button every time it shows up like I do. If I can figure out a quick conversion, of course, it would be easy to update two different stats lists every time there's a change. Looks like it's going to require some research to figure out how to do it though. Right now, just taking the first ship in my list along with the column descriptions, we have something like this:
Type Attack Ammo Attack Power Attack Range Reload Speed Speed Health Armor Rating Armor Type Engine Health Metal Cost Crystal Cost Energy Cost Ship Cap Time To Build Abilities Immunities Resource Generation Description Bonuses
Acid Sprayer I Acid 900 2,500 2 50 154,000 900 Close-Combat 100 0 600 100 0 00:00:05 Armor Piercing 900 Immunities: Missile Ammo Sniper Shots Blade Attacks Fires an acid shot at close range. Excellent at dissolving unusual hull materials. 6 Neutron, 6 Refractive, 6 Composite, 6 Polycrystal
Which might as well be gibberish.
What we want is something more like this:
Acid Sprayer I
Attack Ammo: Acid Attack Power: 900 Attack Range: 2,500 Reload Speed: 2 Speed: 50 Health: 154,000 Armor Rating: 900 Armor Type: Close-Combat Engine Health: 100 Metal Cost: 0 Crystal Cost: 600 Energy Cost: 100 Ship Cap: 0 Time To Build: 00:00:05
Abilities: Armor Piercing 900
Immunities: Missile Ammo, Sniper Shots, Blade Attacks
Description: Fires an acid shot at close range. Excellent at dissolving unusual hull materials.
Bonuses: 6 Neutron, 6 Refractive, 6 Composite, 6 Polycrystal
Probably with some decorative formatting if possible, maybe some extra bolding and such for readability. Also my dump seems to have the wrong ship caps for some reason, but that's not the point right now. Now to just figure out how to automate something to create that in a wiki format...
