@ Megas: I don't have a problem with save-scumming either, but was just pointing out that I didn't (need to do that in order for my playstyle to work). I mean, there were a few times, earlier on when I was figuring out the game, where I did save-scum but they all involved losing my irreplaceable (at that time, given the RNG and what was for sale everywhere) flagship. Now that I run mostly Apogees and Odysseys, with plenty of them spare in storage (from my quest to get an Astral), I don't lose ships - and if I did I could replace it, so don't save-scum now. Though unashamedly will if it's the only way to get a Conquest.
Lol, though there is one place where I religiously save-scum: when I saw that it was exactly the same button to sell or store your ship
I knew that this was inevitably going to end in tears at some point, so save (and have had to save-scum here a couple of times) before doing any ship storing.
Hmm, IIRC there's a crossover point where, if you have enough mounts for them, a bunch of Tactical Lasers + PD AI > an equivalent number of PD/LR PD Lasers with no PD AI. I don't think any of the vanilla ships run into this, but some mod ships do - although there's no real sense in balancing the game to mods, so I guess this point is rather moot.
Yeah, the Odyssey's the only vanilla ship (IMO) where this kind of works, with her 12 small energy turrets. Ends up being about as good vs missiles, awesome against fighters, and gives you a noticeable local damage boost all around. But the flux! One of the main times that the AI fires missiles at me is when I'm close to overloading, to try to push my flux over that edge: the last thing I want in that situation is a PD system that runs at almost double the flux of the LRPD - which is why I tend to use LRPDs, with just a few Tac Lasers here and there for anti-fighter use.
I'll give it a good play, with an open mind, but I wouldn't be surprised if I stop using Tac Lasers altogether, on my larger ships, once they start throwing their flux into the pot at 1000m - that's kind of the range I back away to, to cool down. We'll see. I'm sure that it'll enormously help the likes of the Starter Wolf though.