Take some of the niche or less often used LFs and re-balance them as proposed, while leaving other LFs alone? I'm all about variety in ship classes. Almost every ship class in the game has variety in ship power cores, except for LFs. HFs sorely need some variety as well, but there are at least a few that stand out, like the Marauder, Bull Dog, Jack Daw, as well as a few others. Why not give some LFs the support role, with others being more combat capable?
Perhaps some freighters could also receive some love as Lanakov suggested. The Grizzly is a pretty neat little trick; double CMs allows it to keep one open for countering missiles, while also being able to cloak or counter cloaks. It would be nice to have that available to more than just the Lib-Civ tech cell.
Edit: Mini-flaks sound like an amazing thing and I want one.
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