Well I have just been playing the ultimate mod doing my own test and i originally thought the machines guns looked too power full but but damn they shure do stuff all damage and it did not take me long to get Emissive Armour and than they did no dammage.
If anything take some range of them maybe range 5 or 6 will be good.
The big and I mean big error i found but was that components that use the Die Cast Weapon mount Cost nothing. Yes you heard me right folks build a ship useing the Die Cast Mounts for ever component and you end up with one hell of a cheap vessel
It had me puzzeled how the compute was sending so many ships against me teill I looked at thier designs and saw that they used Die Cast for everything, Luckilly they also for some reason use the tiny weapon mount and machine guns for their primary weapon and could not touch me with any of them

Maybe that needs looking into too
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