Understanding the weapons and balance

[RonGianti]

Ok, I'm tired of reinventing the wheel

I'm attempting to write a script that will

1. Pull out the data from the weapon fields in Components.txt
2. Insert the data into an Excel Spreadsheet
3. Convert the SE5 formulas into Excel formulas
4. Allow the user to plug in a level for the weapons for comparison.

Any scripters out there want to show me how its done? I'm not a scripter, I just took a class for work on basic scripting.

If I could get this done, not only would we be able to get this data after each patch release, but everytime someone made a mod, they could check for weapons balance as well.

I realize that I will likely just be playing KwokStock and other mods, but if I make that jump, I won't go back to Stock and then I won't be motivated to do things like this or care about stock at all..