For those that say that MG's start doing too much damage and compare them with LRM's or Medium Lasers lets take some NUMBERS.
Small Laser
1/14 the weight of the ER PPC
Has 1/3 of the ER PPC's DPS
This would be like giving the MG 1/3 the DPS of the AC/20...which would be 1,6 DPS...Or in the case of the AC/2 - 1,33.
Right now the MG does 1/10 the DPS of the AC/2 or 1/13 of the AC/20 DPS.
If we were to convert that backwards from the ERPPC to the SL and give it the same treatment of 1/13 the DPS of its heaviest counterpart we would have a SL with a DPS of 0,25.
Dont you see how bloody wrong that is? There is more to this than the raw DPS because there are lots of weapons with better DPS than their larger counterparts.
And MG's have a few drawbacks.
-Ammo Explosion
-Cannot utilize heatsinks at all (yes, in a way that is a drawback unlike the SL that regenerate "ammo" faster...)
-Ammo Weight
-Useless without ammo
-Bullet spread
Edited by Terror Teddy, 30 March 2013 - 12:00 PM.