ship designs boring and too similar

[Suicide Junkie]

Bolts don't track, they only lead...
So, if you're far enough away, any changes in heading or speed by the other vessel can cause your whole volley to miss.

When I'm being chased by an angry squadron of meson bLaster carrying fighters in my mod, a series of zig-zags helps reduce the damage since when I zig, the bolts already in space are leading against my zag
In practical terms, at best I can avoid maybe a half to a third of the fighter swarm's attack. Against a single ship with a single incoming fire vector, I can do much better

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You can't change the length of beams... They have fit the distance between your ship and the enemy...
Moddable duration would be very nice, and I'm suggesting it now.

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Any weapon will fit only in slots where the component says it is allowed.
Go to main_components.txt, and just add the names of other slots to the comma-separated list of allowed placement locations.

Or, you could just make a second "Heavy Mount" component, that is identical except that it fits in heavy wepaon slots, does double damage and is 50% bigger

Which, incidentally is what I did for my mod...