ship classes

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Thinking about existing missiles and torpedoes it would be a thing to have missile/torpedo defences, because damage inflicted by those seems to be quite heavy. So there could be whole ships designed for the sole purpose of keeping those away. Or jammers, or armor buffing/weakening beams, or...

With the YOLOL and other devices in the game I would imagine it would be possible to link a number of batteries (each containing several powerful weapons such as rail cannons or plasma throwers) to a single turret manned by one player. As such you could have large ships with a comparatively...