If the weapon classes were to be separated then it would add definition to your choice as a pilot. If you decide to pilot blue then you should be committed to piloting that race, the same goes for green and yellow.  I think it would be a major improvement to the game if this was the case.
I just find it silly that at this early stage in the game people are ably to “effectively” pilot two different “factions” of robots while doing large amounts of DPS.

I may be in the minority but honestly this game is not going to go very far by lumping so many skill trees together. The DEV’s should be trying to add “depth”, add “complexity” (not complication) and increase the life of the game. NOT to make is some type of arcade game.

Just listen to general and the help channels and you will find many new players being directly and indirectly told that if they want to be a DPS character they will need to be blue or yellow. When a question like this can be boiled down to just pick turrets it shows the lack of depth or complexity in the game.

Short: more options are better, 1 size fits all turret skills = not good for long run of the game.

Not a theory but a “coming soon” practice.

IF you find the current system "enough as it is" I can understand wanting things easy. But if this game is to last more than a year or two (and increase the player base) there needs to be core changes to the Skill system to allow for more diversity.

Hugh Ruka wrote:

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stEVE is going on for quite a few years, they have 3 turret weapon types sharing base skills and again a separated missile tree (ok they do have drones). the same complaints are present there as well. however the game functions quite well.

maybe splitting the adanced weapons to 2 skills (long and short) would help, but then you's have to create skills for missile ammo and not launchers.

The Reasons it works over there:

• Lasers there in Eve are non-ammo type weapons. Just capacitor consumption
  you convert damage types a bit by fitting crystals into your laser turrets, with the better ones (Perp: mission ammos) are losing durability over time/use.

• EM guns there are called "hybrid"-weapons, half ammo, half power consumption

• Projectile only weapons, not consuming power at all, just Ammo

• one of the other major differences is: In eve not all weapons can deal all damage types from what i have read, only missiles

• shield/hull tanking with energy weapons working better vs. shields, and projectiles better vs. hull AFAIK

Another thing is the peak recharge point in EvE is better placed then here in Perp

*edited for better readability, less bashing

technically, crosspeccing between all turret variants doesn't give a big enough advantage over missiles:
Im a Laser user, thers no real reason to train EM guns, as the advantage they would grant me (more kinetic damage then thermal) is negated by the missing robot bonus. Also, i can get that with Firearms.

Firearms are the only issue i really see with it skill-wise
- and after all, my first post in this topic was: Implement ballistic firearm, topic  /closed.

btw: once upon a time i had suggested that the current medium machineguns (fast-fire-gattlings) should not use chance-to-hit formula of turrrets, and respective extension, but have a granted hit,  like missiles and using the seismics extension / formula for damage calculation.