If this mod isn't a one-hit-wonder and you plan to keep updating, could you REALLY tone down the convoys for everyone? The TriTach station seems okay as does the Pirate station, but the Hegemony station is overflowing with a good 40-50 capital ships. The Fairy station is filled with Dawns, type A and B as well as Lords and Dawn IIs. Also, the Dawn II's fuel capacity is gimped to all hell. Something like 270 fuel capacity when a Dawn type A or B has around about 1700. I think the Type A actually carries more than that.
Weapon balance? Oh, I haven't tried most weapons. I dislike "burst" guns. Ones that fire shots in succession. Autopulse is not an example of that, I can still control whether I want to fire one shot, or twenty. The Quad 3500mm, for example, fires 4 shots without the ability to interrupt. It is possible to vent to interrupt fire, venting interrupts everything, good for cutting short a ship system that's doing more harm than good like a rather stupid Burn Drive. But because of my dislike for such weaponry, I haven't used many Fairy weapons. Various small guns fire in two-shot bursts, the mediums have three-shot autocannons, large weapons have things like the Quad 3500mm. I have used the twin and triple 1400. They're quite nice to play with. Haven't used many Fairy energy weapons. Many are burst weapons and feel same-y. Some are just upgrades of each other. The Antimatter Torpedo and the Plasma Torpedo. One is just a straight-up upgrade over the other. Then there are some that are just the best. The Modulated Boost Lance, for example, blows all other small beam weapons out of the water. The Photon Machine Gun with it's 600 energy DPS reminds me of the Chainblaster from Project Ironclads, and even serves a similar purpose. A PD weapon that is easily capable of putting the hurt on ships. UNLIKE the Chainblaster, the Photon Machine Gun has a practically insignificant flux/s for it's DPS. And, as a small weapon instead of a medium like the Chainblaster, it is MUCH easier to fit on ships.
Aesthetics (the looks). For the most part, I adore the design of the Fairy ships. I love the clean, bold white and red paintjobs. I also like, but at the same time dislike the design of the weaponry. Many fairy weapons use the same image, making it hard to differentiate them at a glance in a station inventory. All large, medium and small missile launchers use the same general image. While a cool effect for making it look like similar hardware, it makes it almost impossible to know if I'm looking at an Anti-Ship VLS, a Firefly VLS or a UniMissile (Universal Missile) VLS. Perhaps a modification to the sprites, Anti-Ship launchers sporting lesser but larger ports, Firefly launchers sporting many small ports and keeping UniMissiles as they are. While most fairy ballistic weapons all seem to have their own image, many energy weapons do not, which again makes it hard to tell them apart at a glance. It's not like "Oh, that's a Hypervelocity Driver, oh, that's a Heavy Mauler". It's "Oh, that's a beam weapon. And that. That one too. And that too." Something else on the topic of the weapons, they're shadowed. That's not necessarily a bad thing, shadows help give a sense of size and shape in an otherwise 2d image. But the shadows are offset, typically as if light was shining from the top left. Which means one side of a gun is various shades of gray, the other is black. Lighting should as if it's being shone from above the ship, not in front or to the side. It's most noticeably jarring on ships that suffer that one-sided lighting as they turn, yet the lighting does not, as if the entire universe was spinning with them. The gray colour palette also makes it hard to differentiate ship from gun and gun from other part of gun. While I'm fine with the former, not being able to see which is the "business end" of a gun is somewhat strange.
You know, my original post was just that first paragraph, then I went off on a tangent.
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