Nevermind, it doesn't work. At least in my testing, with the use of ecfof and multiple AIs, i can't heighten the "fire rate" at all. But curiously enough, setting aimpoint selection to random increases the probability of shooting at all by about 100 to 125%. I have no clear understanding why though.

Yeah, the splitters seem like they're better for anti air than big targets. Bursts seem to hit or miss together for the most part, so a whole burst might lead or trail a small target where the spread from the splitters seem to ensure at least some of the charges hit. It's a bit weird, though. Plasma seems to be intended for more heavily armored targets, yet its the only projectile system with a true shotgun, while small, agile flyers tend not to have so much armor. If multiple plasma turrets could share power sources like laser systems do, it would make sense to equip a craft with a shotgun for occasional use against pesky flyers. As it is now, you start with an anti-armor specialized platform and then reduce its effectiveness against armor to increase its chances of hitting flyers. Maybe there is a niche of moderately armored yet still pretty evasive craft for which a plasma shotgun would be efficient, but I wonder how often a player needs a turret dedicated to that type of enemy. It's still cool either way.

I was worried that the damage boost on the splitter wasn’t big enough to be worth it, and I think that turned out to be the case. The main problem is that the splitter is really only good at

I can confirm this works You can even use a sequence of ACBs to ensure the target is in front of your craft and that you're within a reasonable bearing before firing. ACBs are extremely powerful, I just wish they were as volume, resource, and defensively efficient as lua or breadboard -- which give you infinite volume and efficiency scaling for 1 block I know most of the KOTL and hardcore fans would rather hang me than consider it, but lua and BB should require GPP based on their complexity and or number of variables/functions

I am thinking of doing this. The CIWS controller will some for the same point as the breadboard. I won’t be able to tell if the gun is actually aimed at the target, but it should be good enough. I’m also thinking of making the altitude profile a sine wave instead of sawtooth so that it doesn’t flair so much at the bottom. That’ll make the guns more likely to be on target.

It's the coupling between yaw, roll, and hover that's hard to deal with. Part of it is that yaw/pitch cut the throttle, but part of it is that the moment of inertial for this craft is a bit wonky, so it rolls and pitches when it yaws. I suspect that the yaw axis is the secondary axis of the moment of inertia which makes it particularly unstable, but I don't think that this game will show you principle axes and the inertia tensor, so there's really no way to know.

So, Star Wars at home.

I would like to see a direct comparison with similar firepower. I'd imagine This method would be great at punching big holes in large targets.

I do, but this one won’t be going up until I’ve finished the entire carrier. I’m going to keep tweaking until then.