[PvK]

Personally, I like what I did with PPB in Proportions - I smoothed out the advances in damage, and then made PPB 1-5 into PPB 8-12, and added PPB 1-7 that start out short ranged and weak (except of course they go through shields!) kind of like SE III PPB's. So, the powerful PPB's are still there (though it's really a major research investment to get them in Proportions).

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