Few quick points. The MagCannon Turret actually has insane bullet tracking which is why it seems to fire in any direction. The bullet literally turns on a dime. It still starts with a forward motion and from my understanding you cannot have a mag/pulse type weapon fire from anywhere but forward meaning if this theoretical weapon had low bullet tracking it would not be possible to implement as things stand and we cannot use current code for it.

On another note, this "rail gun" idea keeps being tossed around but to what end? If this bullet is supposed to be insanely fast then what kind of range are you picturing for it? To far up and you start to breach into sniper territory and if you make it to low it might as well just be a laser like some folks are saying. If we want to get realistic with it a Rail Gun shot prob would just be a beam of light ^^

All of this aside, some actual workable suggestions for gunner would be sweet. I don't know much on the class so I pretty much stay out of these discussions but if I can give me very small 2 cents I would say focus on the weapons. I always felt very underpowered when it came to simple DPS from my guns and missiles are just...meh. Hard to describe. Very useful but just kind of annoying to use when I want to simply shoot something. I know that is not very solid but I like the idea of just pounding something with ACALS or some such as a Gunner, feels good.

Camsy's imagination of railguns:


Erm pic isn't great, took 2min to do and its c1 cause I couldnt find any c2 pics but... you get the idea.

Those aren't railguns, those are turrets, an entirely different concept.

i stilll like camsy's idea. every time i imagine a space ship. it just doesnt shoot from 1 point at the front of the ship. it shoots from all over the damn thing. would be nice to see something like that in game. like for larger ships weapondamage/"firing ports" so you cant put something that does say.. 100 damage x 10 firing ports to get 1000 damnage per shot... but then it would make zerker kinda pointless on the whole MF thing. iunno. something to think about at least.

Edit: maybe make it so instead of MF, zerkers can retain some damage per "port" so to speak.

I disagree with you on that parallel as drones without drone ops augs blow where as slaves without slave ops augs are awesome.

That being said, since slaves are being left a bit in the dust by still only being allowed to use t18 and below ship/aug wise it might not be a bad idea to start adding some very low bonus slave augs in for the main ship. It is def a pay off since the user ship will then be a lot weaker/less effective from what it could be, only issue is someone might break it with an HM or Prawn. Could add a max of 2 on the ship or some such to get around that.

I disagree strongly with all the ideas in the OP.