Shields on capital ship

[Lemon]

This is why the dev team and state of the mod feels so disconnected, why you drove a lot of the people away with these changes.

In reality it promotes loadout versatility and introduces more skill to cap combat.

In reality, this promotes boredom, drives down enjoyability and has made loads of people quit the game - what you wrote makes sense on paper, but it made this game less enjoyable to play and wasn't done with player retention in mind.