hello,
does anyone have a tool to extract the files (or is willing to upload somewhere)?
i want to edit the race perks, races, tech and ships (how much modules they can have etc)
there was some extraction tools that gets them as yaml files, but i have no idea how to use it and the places ive searched have been dead ends (links broken and stuff)
here is the extraction script, just no idea how to use it

https://gist.github.com/kekekeks/3115ea23ffce8bca0b362441e5a80a90

I have made a little progress, but it is tedious.
Could not get the extractor to work, but apparently there is a way to use 010 editor to extract the files, but cant find details on how to...
I did work out a work around though using the 010 editor (comes with a 30 day trial, although tbh I think maybe something like HxD would work the same and it is completely free).
However... then you need to know what to look for...
I used the files from the link below to get some of the information I needed on ships:

http://forum.masteroforion.com/index.php?/topic/1237-mod-simple-battle-balance-better-ai-ship-template-mod-for-moo/page__pid__15735#entry15735

Unfortunately it is out of date, since the guy who made the mod rage quit (well more quit due to completely valid frustration reasons - as in the game is flawed and the designers have still not addressed any of the flaws and take ages to address even minor ones, so yeh he had good reasons to quit - read his postings and see if you agree, i do - here it is: http://forum.masteroforion.com/index.php?/topic/1483-my-verdict-on-new-moo/page__fromsearch__1 ).
But it does contain info needed.

Anyway, with the name of the files/folder from the above mod, opening the resources.assets file with 010editor and then doing a search based on info from one of the files (shiphultypes.yaml etc) from above mod, I was able to find the info needed to make changes to the ship hull types, then it was just a copy/paste/edit job.

I will post more if there is interest and I have access to my own computer.