This was brought up earlier by Beolach but I think it's relevent enough to all the recent balance discussions to re-iterate it. Seems like there's a lot of concern that combat's only occurring between vults and valks with neutIIIs and it would be nice to have other ships/loadouts that can be competitive, or suit different fighting styles. Maybe a simple way to do this is to offer different types of ammo for railguns (and other weapons with 'shells', like gats). for instance, you could have heavier explosive (splash) or proximity railgun ammo, and it could come at the expense of some credits (like any highlevel player cares about that) and more importantly mass (2 kg per round, or something). i don't know how easy it would be to add ammo mass.

anyway, seems like it should be on the table. sorry if it's already been discussed ad nauseaum and i missed out.

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