I've been playing for a week now and decided to up my game so came looking for the game stats.

Google Document Link
Best site for me, the Damage Types section was the most enlightening of the lot and is a must read for all new players.

Wiki Link
This one was way to dense for my tastes and as someone already mentioned it is more for a mod designer, I'm not going to keep looking if I have to whip out my calculator every 10 seconds to get the DPS. Though I'll keep the link and use it every so often when I have one of those tricky questions.

Turn down the contrast Link
This one was not for me, the red starts to burn through your eyes in less than 20 seconds and needs to be changed. A button needs to be added so you can sort by Ship type as well as well as race, an option to sort by DPS might not be a bad idea either. If I was about to play the game for the first time this table might be useful to me but after a few games I'd be done with it.

Not to be left out of the argument I'll put in my two cents,
"You can train a noob but he'll just be a trained noob."
Anyone below the top 30%-40% is usually just a casual player who plays for fun and does not care to much about the DPS at all. The Serious players will take their time to find a good guide and the casual players will be happy with their striped down version. So stop worrying about noobs getting the wrong ideas from inaccurate data, they will never get much better even if they had the right data anyway. Decent players will not be mislead and they will look for the in game values.
Someone just make a new thread with links to all three sets of info labeling them as below and get that stickied and get rid of this flame war thread altogether.

Beginner
http://www.emmeland.com/sinsships.html
Intermediate
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p7xc_snd9Cc-6o2UwvPEWUg&gid=1
Hardcore
http://roe.totalgamingnetwork.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Sins_of_a_Solar_Empire%2C_Ships

*One more thing
For the person who made this one
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p7xc_snd9Cc-6o2UwvPEWUg&gid=4
A suggestion for the Capital ships section, add another DPS column and just put in the averages for each gun facing that direction.
For example
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Radiance Battleship
10.0 (Plasma) Front
15.0 (Beam) Front
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Average frontal DPS is 25 but if I want to compare that to the Kol Battleship I have to take out a calculator or start doing math in my head
Kol Battleship
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9.0 (Beam) Front
34.0 (Autocannon) Front / Sides / Rear
8.25 (Laser) Front
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Think that comes to 28.58 (I'm assuming I divide the autocannon by three) I had to make assumptions their and use a calculator so it would be nice to have it all done for me I'm lazy. This way I could quickly figure out which Capital ship I would most like for early planet clearence.(excluding abilities)

For those of you who read this far a little treat -> http://xkcd.com/406/

Chart has been updated to reflect the latest changes from patch 1.04

Yes, I plan on adding a bunch of new information to the chart within the next week including a counter unit chart which will tell you the best ships to use to counter another ship.

I'll post info on the strikecraft too. I'm planning on doing this on Friday or Saturday.

I've had better

maybe he should label capital ships and put fighters in

Great chart...thanks

hm, any chance we can get any of these update to 1.11?

or 1.12 even

please

Uh, that's my reference sheet, you know, the thread two stickies down:

https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/177682

Didn't realize it's been linked on that MAGOG page without attribution for all this time.

[quote who="[MAGOG]Kruelgor" reply="25" id="1638570"]Zyrxil: Great spreadsheet, but I have two questions:1) You list DPS only, not how much each attack does and the reload/cooldown time.Obviously 20 damage / 2 second will lose less DPS to armour than 5 damage / 0.5 second.2) For the ships that have multiple weapons vs ships - e.g. Capital battleships: Do all their attacks do Capital damage? (And then I don't care about the planet-only attack)3) How's attack type vs armour type affecting shield?Do all attacks do 100% damage vs shields, or is the ship's armour-type being used to calculate damage done to shield too?

It's just a basic chart. Any information you see is taken directly from in the game.

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I agree, if had a mod it would be totally different

You should add how many strike craft each ship can maintain at once