I've got Fusion Beam Emitter, and I'm thinking which ships should I select for the most DPS.
What is a damage ratio of each turret size – small, medium, large, huge?
Turret size damage ratio
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I see that you have managed to take down a bounty hunter base but would like to offer an answer nonetheless.
Respect and Bounty are essentially tracked by the same value. Respect is positive while bounty is negative. Whenever you destroy a bounty hunter ship or base you gain respect. Whenever you destroy UTA or CIV targets in a system covered by the bounty hunters you gain bounty.
The bounty hunters have been designed to be a challenge. They are tougher than normal, there is even an achievement for destroying a tier 3 bounty hunter base, describing the task as doing the impossible. I don't think the developers ever intended these bases to be used for farming. If you really want to take these targets down then I recommend that you get huge hull ships armed with the top tier weapons in a weapons category. You should also posses high levels in shields, armor and hull before you attempt this feat. Bounty hunter bases will be rebuilt after a couple of jumps.
If you want the bounty hunters off your back the quickest way possible, I recommend doing the challenges as you can always approach their bases even if you have a bounty and the respect reward from the challenges are quite high so very large bounties can be paid off with just a couple of challenges.
When choosing a new hull, bars with green in them indicate that they are better than your currently selected hull, and the amount of green shows you how much better. Conversely, bars with red represent stats that are worse than your current hull.
Once an enemy has penetrated your shield and destroyed your armor, they will be hitting the hull itself. Hull Strength is how much damage your hull can take before breaking down.
Hull mass contributes to the inertia of your ship. A higher hull mass will make turning and acceleration slower, which is why many of the larger ships have turret slots.
I generally go for the size of ship which matches the largest ship I commonly face. Although I currently have access to a few large hulls, I am mostly facing medium hulls, and have had much better luck using a medium class Volley than I have had trying to use larger hulls.
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Each turret size offers progressivelly less gain in damage output over previous:
Small base damage Medium 1.5 x base damage Large 2.25 x base damage Huge 3.37.5 x base damage
So in late game you get access to double and triple mount modules for turrets that allow you to swap one huge turret with 3 medium ones, allowing you to trade range and some reactor efficiency for greater damage.