Allowing Capital ship turrets mount lower level turrets.

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Well IF one were to recalibrate the class 8-10 weapons it could work.

Class 8 = Only anti-aircraft weapons such as AA missiles, turrets, and flaks.
Class 9 = Primaries/Cerberus/Cruise Missiles
Class 10 = Razors/Mortars/Pulses

Then you could assign each ship different amounts of each turret class, depending on its role. At the moment you have all these different types of guns duplicated for the three levels of power.

If you did that, I don't think you'd need to assign specific hardpoints to ships. Just balance it by Power Core of individual ships. Let loadouts remain flexibile. Gunboats couldn't ever fire a mortar, and could maybe get 1-2 Small Razors. Cruisers could mount normal ammount of Razors, and 1 Mortar (effectively), and Battleships could spam ... oh, I get the point, the Bombers would fail against Battleships, since they could spam Solaris for eternity +1.

How about making Cruisers and Battleships really really powerfull, yet SRP only?

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