ive been playing for a while and almost every ship weapon component (at least in early and early mid game) are kind of useless. i have 6, 5.3% phaser damage buff components on a basic defense station with 2S and 2M phaser beams and the stations damage goes down, not up.

that's the case for almost every weapon component even if excess power adds only 2% damage. could any one explain this please, thanks.