I am defiantly not sure if I posted this in the right place. Consider this relevant or not, but this has helped me a great deal over the years. I am going to post my KM version that I use.
By In my 7 years of Bridge Commanding, and my years with playing KM religiously. I have developed, what I call the "Rifle's Starship Tree". I use it as a functionality reference whenever I forget what the heck I'm doing while in Multiplayer, or use it as a reference to adapt to situations in the server.
Tier 1 ----------------- Server Patrol and Rule Enforcement
Excalibur Class Negh'Var
Tier 2 ------Occasional duel ships, and requested duels
Sovereign Class Prometheus Class
Tier 3 -------- Primary ships I use for Duels and War servers, and RP
Galaxy Class Achilles Class
Tier 4 ---------- Auxiliary Ship Choices for Duels
Rhode Island Defiant Class
Tier 5 -------- Turkey Shoot Fun ships, and requested Duels, and RP
Steamrunner Class Sabre Class
Akira Class Norway Class
Vorcha Class Warbird
Tier 6 --------- RP ships, requested Duels, or TMP Only Servers/Duels
Constitution Class Bird of Prey
Excelsior Class K'tinga
Praetor Miradorn
Griffin Lakota ( Only use Photons )
As you can see, I have kind of developed this well. I am not sure if it would be helpful with you guys. But for me, it is an invaluable system.