Civilian guns are open to all, yes? Or not? That isn't ooRP, its just silly. No one should prefer Debs over Cid's, ever, unless they have a real problem aiming 600 m/s guns.
And yes Mike, the Outcasts have a lot more thats better than the corsairs.
And no, we dont make up for it with creativity when we heavily influence the loadouts of our own people, which is, encourage them to use lots of salamanca's.
The disparity between the KNF and the BAF is a lot smaller. The Sunrail and the Splitter are both decent guns, along with a very good neutron cannon, the Disinfector and the pretty OK proton cannon, the sunfrenzy. The only large difference is the sizes between the Templar and the Chimaera. So, you counter with Hussars. Great. Our Decurion turns the same as a Centurion, which is slower still than the Sabre, albeit not by much. So, no counter there.
And this "apparent weight" is actually real weight. Measure one persons performance in a titan with a Corsair loadout, and then measure that same persons perfromance in a sabre with an Outcast loadout. I think you may see a correllation with what im talking about here.