Which missiles, which weapons and in which orientation? I am quite keen on fixing this kind of stuff, but I need details. I know that it can blow itself up when trying to launch decoys while launching missiles, but I don't know of any way to mitigate (other than removing decoys).

This is a great ship, one of the best, but it likes to blow itself up while launching missiles, and isn't fps friendly even without drop tanks.

Replacing the missiles with custom ones fixes the missiles recontacting/being shot by own weapons. Is the cause of the performance issues the tanks arranged around core components as armour?

Fixed and improved for the newest patch, this design has now been tested successfully against 10 stock laser frigates.

Sweet!

It's 100% stock components, so it uses 60.4MW stock reactors. I quite enjoy having to work with stock parts limitations and not having to worry about dependency conflicts is a big plus too.

Also, thanks.

Nice ship, If you want to use fewer radiators try high tempature reactors (mine run at 2500k) looks really cool though, getting ships to look good in this game is hard andd you have done it.