It has been brought to my attention that there is some very different angles on the balance of the large THI modular ballistic weapons. Some think they are OK, but some think the Mauler Battery and Ultra Autocannon are too good and overshadow the vanilla large ballistic weapons. Personally I think they are both fine, but am not against changing them a bit if need be but I am not sure they need it.
Mauler Battery can't hit the broadside of a barn, it is an OP / skill tax to even get them to be fairly accurate and their DPS is just... OK. But of course it has longer than "normal" range.
Ultra Autocannon, I think is more complex. Since it is this trickle of DPS that is also fairly inaccurate, at negative flux efficiency. A lot of ships can tank them on shields for a while, in a way they cannot against say a Mk9 or Gauss which those two also do *much* more to armor. And of course the UAC has longer than "normal" range though a bit less than Gauss.
If anyone who reads this thinks those weapons or other THI weapons need balance tweaks? Please tell me here, and I will take the suggestions to heart and perhaps make changes to them.