SE4 Stock Balance Mod

[PvK]

APB at half-damage to shields would use that now-unused ability, and give an interesting disadvantage to the game's most efficient weapon. Shields can be largely countered with Shield Depleters, anyway, so it isn't nearly as crippling a change as it might seem. If that's not a popular idea, then maybe -5 to-hit for APB?

BTW for torpedoes, I'm of the camp that would rather see them do more damage than have a to-hit bonus, for aesthetic reasons. However I think it would do more for balance to give them a to-hit bonus, so I don't mind either way.

I'd give more damage to incinerators, and probably to Ripper Beams too. SE3 Ripper Beams were about twice as powerful as SE4 RB's, but always range 1. Of course, in SE3 this made them almost useless unless defenders, due to the funky movement sequence (defenders could always move to range 2 if they had speed 2+, before the enemy could fire).

However, do we have any indication that MM would ever make the default game to have all these widespread tweaks to weapon performance? I've no doubt most of them would be good for balance, but I'll be surprised if MM will change the default performances much if at all at this point.

PvK