this is only my opionion whether it is humble or not who cares

weapons tech tree should have been like this

light weapons

lasers

phasers

disrupters


heavy weapons

plasma

photon torps

heavy disrupters



other weapons


missiles

maulers (for anyone who doesn't know what that is it is a ship wrapped around a weapon at least at the start of the tech it would allow a cruiser to take out a dreadnaught with one shot, of course that would be all it would get)


you would get to choose one weapon from the light and heavy catagories ie start down that tech for normal research, and production costs

if you decided to research another weapon class that would cost you double and a third class would cost you triple in the light and heavy weapons lists

the other weapons list would just be expensive all the way round


ok i have had my say it is now time for the na sayers to have theirs

and i know it is probable to late to add to any version of the game unless you can mod it in which i am not sure you can or can't