Editing 2024 Wiki update (section)

=== Useful tools ===
If you want to check the stats of anything in the game, the most reliable source is the game's database. If you're not familiar with databases, you can think of them a bit like spreadsheets, with each DB table being a single sheet. (A complete tutorial is beyond the scope of this page.) A good lightweight database viewer is [https://sqlitebrowser.org/dl/ DB Browser for SQLite] - download it, and use it to open AuroraDB.db in your game folder. The tables "FCT_TechSystem" ([[technology]]), "DIM_PlanetaryInstallation" ([[installations]]), and "FCT_ShipDesignComponents" (ship [[components]]) are especially useful for a range of wiki pages. 

It's also possible to copy directly from the database into a wiki table. [https://tableconvert.com/excel-to-mediawiki This site] can do the job, and includes a simple editor to help you rearrange/trim columns or clean up the table. You'll need to manually type column headers into a new top row, but otherwise you just copy-paste like you would with any table or spreadsheet. The output can be copied straight to the wiki.

If you have any questions, I'm on Discord constantly, Reddit fairly frequently, and for the moment I'm also on this wiki and the game forums pretty often as well (and I use the name Alsadius for all of them). 

Thanks!