[Edi]

I'm the one you want to talk to about making a database, as I'm the one who authored the Dominions 2 Unit DB, the Weapons and Armor DB and the current incarnation of the magic site DB. Those were all done in Excel, so they're basically just spreadsheet references.

I'm going to make a Dom3 DB and that one will be in SQL and could be adapted for what you have in mind. The snag is that since it is going to be a generic units/weapons/armor/nations db, it is going to be pretty large and detailed, rather than just the pretenders, and it sure as hell is not going to incorporate scales, dominion points or magic level point costs as such.

Depending on how detailed the IW guys want a user accessible DB to be, they may let me see the source code for units or parts of the code that will help in designing DB.

So it'd be up to someone else to do the frontend for a program that designs pretenders, but I don't think IW will give anyone enough support to sytart messing with the file formats. It'll really be enough if the frontend allows for pretender design and outputs a report to a text file or similar where you can reference it later. Won't be much trouble then implementing it in Dom3. Plus we don't know what sorts of pretender management features Dom3 may or may not contain, but I know some of those were on the user request lists. The beta testers might know something, but they won't be talking is my guess. Not yet anyway.

Edi