Thank you very much for taking interest.
The ship was designed mainly as a starter/early game ship. I haven't tried scaling it up in size for late game. I'm currently working on a cruiser for those areas.
The most important part with this design was the turret capacity and, like you mentioned, possible future upgrades.
It did well in testing on expert, but please do keep in mind it could still be called a prototype.
Any feedback will be greatly appreciated.

I may try this one out.
On paper it reads like this ship can be used from early game until end game (if you upgrade the whole ship all the time and scale it up). This is a pretty well done design, if it should work this way. For ppl that like to stick to 1 vessel and upgrade it their whole playthrough.

Re-designed as a starter/picket ship. Dropped from 5 to 4 slots for better scale with larger ships. Kept the potential firepower (20-24 combat points) intact, even on the smaller frame.