So far I love the concept of this turret, however it does not play out that well. It's a little too inaccurate. I get that it's supposed to fire a spray of bullets like a shotgun in increase the chance of hitting kiting target. What this turret does is that since it fires a spray of bullets, a strafing ship has a better chance to get hit by one of the deviant bullets. Whereas a standard Gatling gun would certainly miss that strafing ship, UNTIL it needs to change it's velocity to make another pass at your ship, that change often saps the fighter of it's angular velocity and gets plastered by a bunch of bullets by the normal gat. While scatter turrets can hit where a normal Gatling couldn't, they can't take advantage of this big opening and hit less overall. This problem is compounded by the fact that scatter turrets deal less damage per bullet too. Overall making it less dangerous than the regular turret. Sure you can make up for the inaccuracy with more turrets, but in order to make it effective, it requires a lot of them and isn't performance friendly.

I checked the mod file and found the scatter turret has a shot angle of 10 degrees. After doing some firing range tests @650m distanced target from a 5 turret array, I found the scatter turret has very poor dps due to too many bullets (which do less damage as it is) missing the target completely. I suggest the shot deviance be changed from 10 degrees to somewhere between 1-5. I personally like area between 2-5 degrees.

10 degrees (what it is now):
http://cloud-2.steamusercontent.com/ugc/531756854848664928/B809FEF528522D050BC7A4CC4DFC6F879B7FBD41/

5 Degrees
http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/531756854848665037/67D73204C5014792BF9BD6251A5AD23DFC556446/

2 Degrees
http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/531756854848665136/C92AE0C8FCBE070213F131227994978BB265D217/

1 Degree
http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/531756854848665241/D6971877F80EB6F5F6EF3D9F2EFD2B9E1FC90AF3/


Alternatively, If reducing the shot deviance is absolutely not an option for some reason, I recommend that it's damage be upped so that it is on par or stronger than a regular Gatling bullet to make up for the fact it will be hitting far less than normal.