The new class 9 guns for all the houses are good, they do alot of damage and are pretty balanced.
The only factions with class 9 guns now are the houses, outcasts and the corsairs.
Most of the pirate factions best weapons are equal to the corsair, outcast or house guns of the same class.
Example: xeno class 6 gun, has a shorter range then outcast class 6 pryos type 3, the only difference between them is the range.
Another example: brunschuh class 8 gun (tachyon), they have a slower refire and better range then the corsairs salamanca mk 1 (class 8, neutron), the damage per shot is the same.
I think only the fairly big pirate factions, those with alot of bases/resources should get any new weapons.
eg: the hessians have nearly as many bases as the corsairs.
The rogues also have several bases and can easily steal/adapt the liberty navy weapons.
Also, for reference more then anything, factions and the weapons they use:-
Liberty: laser and plasma,
Britonia: tachyon and particle,
Kusari: neutron and laser,
Rhienland: tachyon and plasma,
Civlian (most companies): laser and pulse (shieldbuster),
Liberty rogues: laser,
Xenos: Particle,
Junkers: photon,
Hackers: tachyon,
Mollys: Neutron,
Gaians: photon,
Outcasts: tachyon and particle,
Corsairs: neutron and pulse (shieldbuster),
Red hessians: laser,
Brunschuh: Tachyon,
LWB: Tachyon,
Unioners: Neutron,
Hogasha: plasma,
GMG: photon,
IMG: Tachyon,
Blood Dragons: laser,
GC: photon,
zoners: photon,
BHG: laser and particle, I think thats all of them...
@McNeo: have you looked at the stats of the nomad laser that the nomad fighters use? 2000 hull damage per shot (roughly) and refire rate 1.00.
Pretty much identical to the nomad BS turret stats, you seriously want to be able to mount, on a fighter, a weapon that rivals a BS turret?
EDIT:
Infocard error on the cylon raider, it's says optimal class 7, max class 9. It's currently got two class 6, two class 8 and two class 9 gun mounts, so the optimal class should be class 6 not 7.
EDIT 2:
It'd be nice if all the unfinished tradelanes could be completed, yes all the construction machinery depots will go but timeline wise they've probably had enough time to finish building the tradelanes to harris, to the tau 23 jumpgate, to the chugoku gate construction site and from tau 23 jumpgate to the BMM mining area in tau 23.
