Until I changed their base value, the PPCs were so expensive no station could afford to buy one from me, and I couldn't afford to buy the PPC Mark II with all the credits in the game
but, fixed for now 
I'm eventually going to take a hard, long look at the http://wiki.neurohack.com/transcendence ... eapon_list and see if I can match prices and energy usage to something a little less off-kilter, but that's going to be some OCD fun there.The Phasers are great for dogfighting and defense against swarms of ships, and with some cleverness, work well for sniping a targeted enemy whilst playing cat&mouse with a planet, sun, or other obstacle to hide on. The capacitance function is the balancing factor that keeps them from being overpowered. The PCCs are working out best as long range base-killers but are pretty useless for dogfighting, more tweaking will be needed to avoid having them be a weapon that nobody really wants to use. The Bussard Ramscoop works great for fueling as long as you remember to head to a star before you run out, but in essence it may as well be a preloaded solar array with a faster refueling factor, so it's a little unbalancing but more along the lines of a playability convenience than god-modding. The SF LCARS CPU may as well be a preloaded quantum CPU, but by the time it's useful as such, you could have found a quantum CPU anyway, so it's hardly unbalancing at all.
The ship itself has too many available device slots
but that's more for testing, I knew I was going to have to reduce that for the final release from the get go. My target is to make it about half-way between the Sapphire and the EI500 playerships.Ok, that's enough babbling, back to shooting stuff
Addendum: Something screwed up, probably me... but it seems I missed the Huari mission (prolly cause I blasted several of their ships before I remembered they were some kinda special), and after going all the way back to Starton, I cannot find any more CW Militia stations any where, which I'm assuming I would need in order to accept missions and gain the militia rank needed for the Point Juno missions to unlock.
I have the following player extension going for this run:
TechAnalyzer
VisibleDamage
ICXOverhaul
AssemblyHangar
DealerStations
EmptyWrecksExplode
USS_Defiant
AssemblyHanger and DealerStations are the only two extensions I can think of without digging through code that have significant impact on system generation, but it looks like this run is toast unless I want to go all out for Heretic, or start over without those extentions added. Anybody got any suggestions?
YASD indeed 
