Large Port addon that increases basic thrust by 20 percent

It should have an energy penalty associated with its use. I say make it assignable to a trigger to activate it so it consumes something like an extra 10 energy/sec while active.

People would totally load up a BHM2 with 3 of these puppies.

All they would do is improve the ship handling at the expense of a weapon slot. I can see them being used more on the tar of doom for pvp.

3 on a hm2 would not go any faster - just make it good at handling super heavy loads.

I had originally thought of making them a fixed increase but adding 100N boost to a tar would be massive and almost meaningless to an hm2.

A separate turbo booster might also be an idea as well and would be much more useful to the moths

This idea was already covered here. Item number 1.

+1.

+1 as temporary workaround. We realy could use more personalization or customization for ships, as most of items from The return of the ever growing toys thread.

For a proper impementation, it would be much more logical to have Utility-ports, either completing or replacing existing weapon ports for most ships. Like the Moth.1 gets 1 Uport + 1 Lport, while Moth.2 becomes 3xUports only...

There is really little reason to distinguish the difference in addon ports in the majority of cases. Unless of course they want to start pigeon-holing the ships more than they already are. I can understand having utility ports in addition to the normal complement of ports, but changing existing ports from their current type is a bad move in my opinion.

Aye - id rather make it a trade off of losing a weapon to gain something else....