[LGM]

Make weapon research costs higher. The 5K base for most of them means you do not bother deploying them until you max out the level. Does anyone ever deploy a ship with a PPB I? The always research to 3 to 5 before actually deploy it.

It seems silly that you sepend 155K of research to get PPB I but for another 10K you get PPB II. The weapon improvement should be much more difficult. Make weapons something like 15K or 20K and racial weapons 30K or 40K instead of 20K. Especially make the good weapons like Null Space and PPBs be larger bases.