No thoughts on increasing projectile speed?
Walt Your understanding is correct. I wonder if this should be a railgun-specific change, or a global change to how all penetrating weapons work?
It probably wouldn't hurt to change cannons too, but it's a lot less important for them because they are much cheaper with a faster fire rate.
Walt Yeah a cost reduction definitely seems to be in order. Perhaps 7500->5000?
7500->5000 sounds reasonable, though it might make people overreact since it sounds like a 33% cost decrease (even though it's a lot less because of power, crew, weight, etc.)
Walt I can see increasing the exponent as well. Perhaps 0.75->0.85?
0.75->0.85 is probably too extreme. Maybe 0.75->0.80? This also risks making very large, railgun-only ships too powerful while not buffing smaller, mixed-weapon ships. If scaling feels too extreme it might make sense to increase the exponent by a lot, but also decrease the buff %.