Walt Lol...the discussion title. Hope there are still discussions about capacitors. Because I do have some thoughts about the use of them in rail guns. It's called doubling the power consumption of the rail gun.
Why you may ask? It's both for the balance and the lore perspective. From the lore perspective, rail gun is supposed to be a power-hungry weapon, dealing lots of damage but draining tons of power in doing so. But if you look at how much power it currently uses, you would noticed that rail gun don't consume that much power at all. A rail gun with 8 accelerators consume less power than an ion beam, but has the damage output way exceeding it. This is totally unfair.
I think the original number of the rail gun's power consumption in RC is the correct one. However, it was halved in the official release because most people had problem to continue powering it. This can be resolved easily with the introduce of capacitors. Of cause, with the increase in power and crew requirement, there should be some decrease in credit to compensate it as well.