The Bustard as it is now is a pain to fly into combat unless one is running the 8-Pulse gimmick. The turret slots at the equipment dealer even lie to the player. They read "Cruiser Turret - Heavy", but it can only mount regular Cruiser guns. To remedy the sadness of "Aw man, I can't six-LM insta peeps like a proper lolcap", which even I would consider to be completely and totally horrible to be on the receiving end of, I have put forward a couple suggestions and the reasoning behind them.
Suggestion A: Give it Cruiser Heavy slots
With Cruiser codenames available and the recent nerfs to Cruiser guns (FFS why did you nerf Pulse, devs?), perhaps a couple, maybe Turrets 5 and 6, of the Bustard's guns should have the option to mount Cruiser Heavy Turrets, mostly because it would look cool. Also, it would make Bustard more customizable with no visible downsides to the pvp environment's other occupants beyond "Oh wait, it can LM us now. Better use our Thruster a bit more."
Suggestion B: Single BS Heavy slot
Make Mount 8 a BS Heavy slot so Bustards can Nightmare peeps, or mount one of those cool cap codenames. The introduction of Transport flaks have made Bustard's extremely limited missile defense abilities able to done more efficiently, both in terms of actual credit cost and in terms of area covered. A flak-equipped Taureau can do the same job for a little under 1/10th of the cost of a Bustard, and has the added bonus of being able to make any snub shield disappear at will.
Again, further customization options with little to no functional change in how a fight will play out beyond the Bustard having a bit more punch in a 360 arc on its top side.
tl;dr Can I use cap codes on my Bustard pretty please?
