I think Fed turrets should be upgradeable:


Platform can go one of three ways:
Phaser Turret
Torpedo Turret
Sensor Platform

Phaser Turret:
Has range of the Pulse Phaser now, a little faster RoF, slightly lowered damage per shot, to keep same DPS.

Phaser turret has two upgrade paths, unlocked by some upgrade (tie it to whatever you like)
-Pulse Phaser turret - mounts dual pulse phasers. Fires faster than current, with current DPS, BUT is a short range weapon (higher damage, short range).
-Type XVI Phaser Cannon - high offense value, very low RoF (one shot every 10-20 seconds?). Able to obliterate large targets with ease, but has problems tracking sub-cruiser ships. 80% base chance to hit, -30% vs destroyers, +20% vs battleships

Torpedo Turret:
Has 90% of the range of the current Quantum Turret. Fires a volley of 5 torpedoes a shot. Each torp does 50% of the damage of a Quantum Turret. Costs 10% less than a quantum turret.

Has two upgrade paths:
-Quantum Torpedo Turret - replaces the photon torp with a q-torp launcher. Q-torp turret has +15% current range, -10% damage, +20% Refire Rate. Yes, the q-torps can fire outside their own vision range IF something is spotting. Attacks all targets in range (as current)

-Burst Fire Photon Turret - as the photon turret, but it fires MIRV photons instead. Each torpedo breaks into a volley of 5. Each "shot" results in five torpedoes, with each volley having 25. However, each MIRV warhead only does 50% of the damage of a standard photon (meaning it does 250% damage of a normal photon if all the torpedoes hit). Definately an anti-battleship weapon.

Sensor Platform -
Has one on-board upgrade:
Sensor Link - able to link 3+ sensor platforms together in order to form a sensor network, providing a visual link on all space between the sensors out to their maximum range. Base sensor range MUST overlap in some form to allow this link.

Basicly i like the ideas, but the defensive applications for all other races shoud be adapted too. This would make the game much more defensive and I doubt the defs will like to change the games style that much.

The idea of the MIRV is that it's effective against one or many targets, though against many it looses DPS ability

Er... yeah 

Not that it'd be a problem for you guys, right? 

I see it more as the Ent-D's burst launcher - 5 torps coming out at once. Sorry if I described it badly

 I  would prefer  If Reisner gets any  torpedo turret   Reisner  would  get a Dominoin styled monitor turret with Photons torpedos and  the options  upgrade to two of the  selected   a special abilities of  either  Critical shot  , Organise defense , precise volley ,cloak detection or a  Klingon Sang styled micro torpedo lancher  upgrade. I won't hold my breath  but  be nice , but can live with out as well.