Tweak-a-Ship for Endless Sky file

After playing some 50+ hours Endless Sky, this little completely free gem of a game, I felt the need to tweak some ships, to make them more ponderous or formidable or under-powered.
Easily done, individually, with all the guides available, but I wanted to be able to modify the rest of the ships/systems/weapons according to my concept of how they should behave, without parsing a zillion lines of txt in ships.txt, weapons.txt and so on in the game's data folder.

Enter Tweak-a-Ship, 2 macro's embedded in the file that extract the information from ship.txt and put it in a table, for easy editing, and then puts it back in txt format

So, if you want to try your hand (and mind) in thinking a better equilibrium for a not so simple Endless Sky, you might find useful this tool.

Steps:
- install Libre Office ( a free alternative to Microsoft Office).
- enable macros in Libre Office (Tools > Options >Security > Macro Security > LOW). This will enable the 2 macros in this file to run.
- install Notepad++ if you dont have it and check that word wrap is disabled.
- identify the game "data" directory and ships.txt in it
- open ships.txt in Notepad++ and copy it's contents into the sheet Sursa_ships below (the light blue tab).
Upon copying you'll be asked about format. Chose Separator Options > Fixed Width
- delete previous text in Tabel_ships and Destinatie_ships tabs
- run Ship1 Macro (click the buton or open the macro editor and chech it out first, your choice)
- tweak the table of parameters and descriptions
- run Ships2 Macro: it will compile the table on drive D:\ in ships.txt
- copy D:\ships over the original in the game data directory (you may want to save the original, just in case)
- restart the game and test the new configuration.
Enjoy