Discovery Mod: Balance Issues

[Syrus]

(Raw) Hydrocarbons come in as an ore. Daumann and BMM both get that. Would advise you to refrain from suggesting stats until you know the baseline. When that's decided we'll let you know.

As long as in the end people won't say "no, now it's all set in stone, you could've said something earlier...", because that happens often enough. I liked Pavel's of having a chat on skype to discuss mining related things among the miner's factions and the dev(s) who are responsible for the mining related things.

Anyway, main reason why I write here again was, because I wondered...
http://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread...pid1339783
First off, I really like that there won't be as many useless guns anymore, but I wondered, what will happen to guns like the Starbeam or other low class weapons?
Though it'd not be a massive loss, I feel like the old low class guns could be used as a "secondary line" for the respective faction, if they look different enough - like Starbeam and Flashpoints. Just upping the stats to the respective level and you got a fun little addition to the tech. Unless you already have something different planned for them?

EDIT: Hm...realized I posted this in the wrong place, I guess.

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