Agree with everything written so far
Given the greater emphasis I think it's about time we had some choice within the point defence tech - I know many modders have come up with Point defence lasers, Point Defence missiles etc - any chance MM could drop a few of these into an official patch?
Perhaps balance the greater dificulty in hitting fighters by reducing fighters' firepower and / or improving emissive armour.
Apparently Emissive Armour is pretty much useless now, and the damage handling bugs^H^H^H^H features mean it's not safe to mix it with other armour types. Boost it's effectiveness and add things like organic emmissive, crystal emissive, stealth emissive to get rid of the incompatibilities.
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