Frankly nonsense dear sir. The Quantum Field Focus Phaser uses auxiliary power and if you have that maxed when you fire it you'll do plenty of damage. - I don't have any phasers/phaser consoles on my vesta and the Quantum phaser does about 3.7k damage per second (for 12 seconds). That's hardly "like a wet noodle"
Oh, I wasn't aware of this. Can you clarify which law this is that you're referring to (I'm presuming that it's a US law?)? Cheers! PS you'd better tell Amazon this :-)
My Regent has advanced fleet beam banks up front and turrets in the rear. Add a Breen Rapid Fire Transphasic Torpedo Launcher at the front with TS1 and 2 and this gives a torpedo spread every 15 seconds. Also at the back is either wide-angle quantum or Breen Transphasic Cluster Torpedo. It's all about maximising forward…
Without wanting to get into the debate as to what might (or might not) improve cruisers, I have to question the initial poster's premise - "With the introduction of increasing numbers of heavy carrier vessels..." Really, where are all these carrier vessels? I ask this because in my experience I don't see them being played.…