7 gun 2.00 loadouts - coming changes

[Karst]

Make all fighter turrets into guns. Freighters and SHF's retain their turrets. Allows you to balance freighters and SHF separately in far better detail.

Nerf 2.00's efficiency into the neutron star's gravity well. It's all about well timed and aimed salvos. I think your problem is that they just deal too much damage in short period of time. This would discourage it.

Buff 4.00's efficiency to make them more spammable as gun that does not really have its own niche.

These are actually concepts I've played with before.

I also think it would make a lot of sense to convert all turrets on fighters currently to guns, so that the class can be freed up for dedicated freighter weapons. There's no balance reason fighters should have a turret class at all.
And when Haste wrote the universal efficiency formula, I was in favor of a curve that peaks around 3.03-4.00, and then decreases again (slightly) going further down the refire chain. I still think that's a better balance choice, and considering the topic here, it seems I'm not the only one (though I wouldn't link it specifically to 7-gunners).

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