Change to railguns

[Nightwind]

Hm it doesn't have to be imbalancing. Make it consume large amounts of energy PLUS ammuniton.

Or make it only usable on some ships. For example VHFs or SHFs. Maybe even only on LFs. Or restrict it to certain capships like cruisers (they're not that strong anyway. It would help to balance them a bit and finally give them a small advantage. crosslink))
I'd like to see them on GBs, but i think that would be a bit overpowered.

And of course it would add some variety to the CD/Torp slots.

I'm sure there is a way to prevent them beeing fighter-one-hit-kill-weapons. A small firing delay? Like the time it takes to load the projectile ? Or it would only damage targets without shields...

EDIT: The projectile hasn't necessarily to be that incredibly fast/instant-hitting, I think it's enough if it's just very fast (fast enough to be a kind of sniper-weapon)