Experienced ships and planets have their experience level reported in the high byte of the beam count field. Possible values range from 0 to the value of NumExperienceLevels. Note that the experience reported in the VCR might differ from the one reported in util.dat; the ship might have got promoted after the fight.

This is a testing version.
It may be incomplete, and have more bugs (or features) than the public live version at planetscentral.com.