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Plasma Weapon Rebalance

Currently, TI's Plasma Weapons are in a weird spot. With their innate advantages, many of the balancing issues have just one solution: DPS vs. single-shot damage. Coupled with human plasma cannons being SIGNIFICANTLY worse than alien ones (Including having far worse range), the weapons never felt 'right' to me. This is an attempt to improve the balance and a proof of concept for the devs.

• Rationalize the damage scaling with the armor mechanics in TI.
  
• Make armor more resistant to plasma, but if you can resist plasma reduce time to kill by increasing DPS
  
• Make the plasma nose mounts more useful, ESPECIALLY the 3-slot version.
  
• Increase the heat load of plasma as compared to other weapons plasma almost didn't need a heatsink
  
• Reduce the sometimes insane leaps in efficiency and weight reduction.

• Human plasma has a standardized efficiency curve now (20->25->30%), resulting in increased power draws for higher levels
  
• The Plasma Cannon and Heavy Plasma Cannon have had their ranges increased by 100km each (900 and 1100km now)
  
• Payloads per shot are reduced, resulting in decreased damage per shot (Lower damage means less armor is necessary to stop the first few shots)
  
• Plasma Battery stays the same
  
• Heavy Plasma Battery 0.5->0.45kg
  
• Plasma Cannon 0.75->0.6kg
  
• Heavy Plasma Cannon 1->0.75kg
  
• Fire rate is drastically increased, resulting in a higher over-all DPS than before the changes:
  
• Batteries have been standardised to a 28-24-20s refire rate for Mk1-Mk2-Mk3 respectively
  
• Cannons have been standardised to 32-28-24s
  
• Weights of all Mk1 and Mk2 plasma weapons have been lowered somewhat.

As with all balance changes, this of course means there might be situations where the changes presented result in a butterfly effect on other things, so please do leave a comment if you think there is something left to improve.

If you think these changes are better than what's in the game, please let the devs know on their Discord. There will be a dedicated post in the balance chat section for this mod.