A few balance suggestions.

[Mímir]

Good stuff. The NPC's will lose missiles, mines and CD's in the next update for sure.

I like your idea about slow-firing cap weapons, but the problem is that the FL engine is terribly bad at handling caps - especially when they turretsteer, you'll find that aiming at the crosshair will lead to a miss more often than not, and when you free aim, the turrets are located so far apart from each other that you will miss - or worse, shoot in the direct opposite direction of where you are trying to shoot. So caps need to be able to fire relatively fast, otherwise they will be really bad even at taking down enemy capital ships. But you are right, maybe reduce the number of slots for fast-firing guns, remove cerbs and add more variety to the hard-hitting long range weapons.

You are also spot-on about the capital ship patrols. They wreck snubfights but look nice when they are drifting around - but they are in no way a deterrent for capital ship pilots, as they are supposed to be. I don't think they should be gone, as it does add some atmosphere to undock from Manhattan to see a battlegroup pass by slowly. Maybe give them 1 gun and paper hull, and thus make their presence entirely cosmetic, and then bring back capital ship missions where you can spawn "proper" NPC caps for those who want a PVE challenge of sorts?

Your gun is problematic. It can more or less insta a whole lot of things, and with 3500 m/s and turret auto-aim it will just be way too easy. People would pair up, so one can drop shields, and the other can take the kill without much effort. No fun to play against, at all. The Warwolf Valor forward gun is in my head the best thing we can get along these lines within the limitations of the engine.

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