Less of a suggestion and more of a question:
In an unlikely event that Alex decides to revamp the entire weapon mount system or do something different for an equally unlikely sequel, is there is any merit to having more of weapon mount sizes?
For example:
Ultra Light = Current lighter small weapons;
Light = Current heavier small and lighter medium weapons;
Medium = Most of current medium weapons that don't go either way;
Heavy = Current heavier medium and lighter large weapons;
Ultra Heavy = The rest of current large weapons;
On paper, one benefit to this is that it allows Alex and the Mod devs to fine tune the ship/weapon power in more granular way.
Don't know how it would turn out in practice, though.