Allow weapon turrets to have build cells chained to them

Equalizer

If it were possible have some build cells rotate with a weapon's turret it would give the option to armor the turret to varying degrees without obstructing the turret. It could also potentially be used for more complicated things such as mounting fixed direction weapons, like ion beams, on a turret.

This is some what similar to having a ship hinge/joint, however it is simpler because the turret targeting would control the turret direction, unlike a ship hinge which presumably would require manual control.

Dumb

Tho with fixed directional weapons,although might seems to about annoying to mount in a good position,must stay fixed in a direction or they can just evaporate everything (ions have like the highest direct damage and with hinges and joints peeps can just spam ion walls and allow them to focus fire,which will melt any defence in game)

Equalizer

Dumb I don't think a turreted ion beam would actually be over powered because ion beams are so expensive.

In terms of damage output per credit they are actually terrible in comparison to cannons, not just because the ion beam itself is expensive but also because it pretty much needs a dedicated reactor. The current strength of ion beams is that they can be put deep inside a ship where they are incredibly hard to destroy.

To continue with my original idea being able to build on turrets would make creating customized turrets possible.

The actual guns could be separate parts from the turret itself make it so that instead of needing to create new parts for single gun, dual gun, quad gun etc, one could put together different numbers of guns on generic turret mounts.

This would have the added benefit that for big turrets they could be partially destroyed by having some of their guns knocked out. In contrast to not being effected by damage until the entire turret blows up, as is currently the case.

TheSillyFox

Equalizer
sooooo... fixed position cannons?

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

pirate ships intensifies

Dalas120

Equalizer In terms of damage output per credit they are actually terrible in comparison to cannons, not just because the ion beam itself is expensive but also because it pretty much needs a dedicated reactor. The current strength of ion beams is that they can be put deep inside a ship where they are incredibly hard to destroy.

Technically, this depends on what you're shooting at. Vs any single target (meaning penetration is irrelevant) ion beams actually have very similar dps/cost to large cannons, and lag behind small cannons by ~25%. So if you're shooting at armor or only worried about killing surface weapons, ion beams are a decent choice.

Cannons, of course, are the optimal weapon for damaging a ship's innards because of penetration.