Credit to Inc for this suggestion.

Add craftable flare, missile, rocket, mine, etc ammo. "Reload ship" automatically purchases the ammo required to reload what is on your ship, if you have no ammo of the type needed in storage. Small requirements for large amounts of ammo, missions available at capitol, commercial, and mining stations. Ammo types should almost always be sold wherever the ammo's complement weapon is sold. All ammo types should be sold at capitols and military stations.

Nahin you just can't help yourself can you.

I'd actually like to see this happen eventually.

Make more weapons that use ammo and maybe we'll talk.

Yes... for the love of God and all things holy, make this
happen.

Well actually it makes a lot of sense given that ammo weapons are far superior to weapons without ammo. But it breaks a lot of other associated gameplay like conc stations and tridents.

Mixed feelings

I want a Bofors 40 mm gun, and perhaps say 6 .50 cal browning machine guns. Since, well.. that would be kinda cool, and yep.. you would have to dock to reload.

Or perhaps a ship like Lockheed AC-130 gunship. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_AC-130

(just a tad offtopic)

breedable ponies as well? : )

I designed the ConcRail missions around the idea that the ammo is the primary product of the manufacturing process, and the rail itself gets "burned out" after 10 shots...

/ducks tomato

...and the LAR-project Valent and Axia stygian furies are kind of like breedable ponies...

In all earnestness; this is a cool idea, but I'm not sure how utilitarian it would be in practice. I'd rather see additional crafting efforts made available toward things like the Trident Type-S and the Trident Type-P, Constellations, the Teradon Frigate, Heavy Assault Cruiser, and stations that are player-designed / built / operated.

I don't mind the idea, but maybe make some of the better kinds of ammo more rare/only craftable.

Also, what kind of ammo variants are you proposing?