Fighter Explosives (missiles + torps and mines) Poll

[Unseelie]

Just wrong.

I believe you expect that the hardpoint has a "max weapon class" set. That is wrong. A hardpoint is usually capable of mounting all classes 1..n, but I could as easily create a hardpoint that can mount gun classes 2, 5, 8 and 9 (or any other set of classes I want).

Ah, you are correct, I had forgotten.
That said...
This point still stands:

Such a change would, if you've missed that, force every single ship to either use 4 instead of 6 guns, or use 4 guns and a pair of missiles, or whatever. Every single powerplant, then, would be effectively larger than it was before because missiles use less energy, and, in general, people do not use missile/gun loadouts as much as they use pure gun loadouts.

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