then what about neutron particle, railgun turret ( it gives an advantage over the static one ) the super large shield generators, irgyumh, antiproton canon, proton torpedo 5/10 I mean, all these seems a lot more powerful than the tech tier would suggest. sure the price tag is there.
But me honestly I counter argument that you, yourself, doesn't seem to know what being balanced is about.
anyway, on another subject, On the discord channel, discussing what may cause the phaser lance issue of not firing, a friend and I managed to pin point the cause of the issue.
Its the mirror mode, when placed individually, all phaser lance works perfectly fine at whatever direction they are looking at. But if you place them in mirror mode at opposite direction, only the one you placed yourself will fire, while the one placed by the mirror mode will not.
so far testing tells as such.