IDEA: New Projectile-based Machine Gun for Battleships?

[Black Widow]

Well the whole point of it is to have a machine gun in space, the idea of it being ammo based only makes it more realistic.

It could be ammo less machine gun such that the dps is the same as a Class 9 Primary Gun but just divided up over a large number of bullets / sec.

The only requisite would be that it fires and sounds like a machinegun, see this video for an e.g of what it could be like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8MIzv4W2TE

All the guns in disco at the moment are too similar and there needs to be some more diversity to it than just lazers missiles and flaks. Machineguns I believe provide that diversity, while being engineered to not be as effective against snubs say by reducing the shield damage the projectile does to 0, so it only does hull damage. They could be an effective primary turret.

Maybe reduce the range of the machine guns projectiles (2k) while buffing up their dps when a target is in range, this will counteract the loss of damage done to a target when its not in range say when compared to a regular primary turret that has a range of 3k.