--- Some random ideas I had:
--- Regarding missile changes, the removal of missile agility ruffled quite a few feathers it seems, but I've given it a lot of thought and I think... after playtesting, that an avenue to reinstate it, IF NEEDED, could be as such:
--- Missile Agility is rebranded to Missile Guidance. It has the same tech line as agility. Mechanically, the rebranded agility scales up with the missile, and the tech line, rather than giving more agility per msp dedicated to it, governs the agility cap. So bigger missiles would have more innate agility, but not more than the cap. Meanwhile, smaller missiles would need to add msp into guidance, and would still end up being capped by the tech. So, basically, if Missile Guidance Cap, the replacement for Missile Agility per MSP, was 16, a missile could never have more than 16 regardless of size or MSP invested, and bigger missiles would have more agility to start with, thus needing less MSP to get the same agility.
--- Regarding beam ships:
--- It struck me that a form of "Capacitor Bank" might be a helpful thing for diversify beam ship designs. Basically, this component would derive it's efficiency from the Capacitor tech. It would then incur a power requirement, like a beam weapon would, and would charge like a beam weapon too. The capacitor would discharge as part of the beam weapon firing phase, just like a beam weapon would, however, it would distribute it's available energy evenly across all beam weapons that are firing. This would work more or less identically to how power plants distribute their power, following the same priorities. The caveat is that these aren't power plants, but capacitors, and so count as extra capacitors for the purposes of weapon RoF.
--- So for example, a weapon has 25 capacitors, and a RoF of 10s. A single capacitor bank of 25 would give it a 5s RoF instead. Another example, Three weapons with 10 capacitor and a 20s RoF with a single 15 capacitor bank would instead have a 15s RoF each. I'll do an effort post later, in it's own thread. Questions or thoughts are welcome in the meanwhile.