[PvK]

Yes, it's too bad the SE4 to-hit system is so basic. About the only solution for the issue of combat sensors improving gatling gun shots too much would be to work combat sensor effects into mounts... which would tend to create an unmanageable number of mounts.

On the other hand, for those not particularly interested in realism and accuracy of sci-fi equipment, they could note that modern aegis-like systems do use gatling guns and advanced fire control to try to provide naval point defense.

The other problem though with gatling mounts like this is that there's no way to speed up the combat display - it will take ten times as long to watch an attack by a ship with ten times the number of attacks.

You can relatively easily allow smaller spinal mounts on larger ships, though, except again you may end up creating more mount categories than you really want.

PvK