Thoughts on 4.76

[Igiss]

1. can Ioncross cheat detection be set up to detect abusive weapon load-outs (e.g. cruiser forward gun on a non-cruiser?)

No it cannot. They fire so slowly... I wonder how players adopted to use them efficiently.

2. Decrease the power recharge on cap ships.

Confirmed (if no one has another opinion).

3. This one might surprise - remove forward thrusters from all cap ships.

No I won't do that. Thusters for cruisers and trains are anyway much slower than for a fighter. But I may consider reducing speed even more.

Make all battleship turrets do the same damage.

This will make Osiris and ships alike practically useless. Whatever armor you have, you get beaten if your attack power is 3 times less (compare - 21 turret for Rheinland battleship and 8 turrets for Osiris).
This problem should be solved if energy usage of more powerful turrets will be increased, and power recharge decreased.

Missile turrets are too effective

Ok I've already done this before but lots of people started complaining about how useless missiles are now. So this is for your consideration. I'm not sure what to do about it, but IMHO the power should be reduced... so yes, I agree with you on this point.

I suggest giving cap ship turrets a class rating

They have no rating at all. They just use different amounts of energy. Again increasing recharge time should solve this once and for all.

There's a one-way New York jumphole in New York that doesn't serve much purpose. Moving this to the empty Unknown would be cool.

It's much more difficult than you might think. But if someone could help me with the code...

they've disabled the F1 options (other than Resume Game) when the ship is in space.

This is arguable. Sometimes people use it to escape difficult situations - well, whatever. If you really roleplay, you'll never do that (or do that only if really needed).
I know that F1 is like cheating - but this option was left by Digital Anvil guys intentionally.
Besides this feature requres exe editing and there's no information about that from legal sources.

I hope there'll be a 4.77

I hope too. If nothing unexpected happens, 4.77 will be released in 1-2 weeks, though I'm really busy with Oblivion stuff right now.