hehe, my stradegy is whenever a bunch of those guys are behind us, i just go in reverse and watch the multiple explosions behind me

nice

Ships will still have small blindspots, but they wont have the huge gapeing blindspot at the back.

The corvette has the underside, so does the Neb B, the Imp ships have either side. Yes the blindspots are smaller, but then it will require teamwork from the fighters/bombers to take on a capital ship. a lone fighter should be pulverized by a capital ship, not the other way around.  I do not beleive 1 fighter tailing a large ship in the rear blindspot deserves the 4-5 kills from a capital ship. I have no problem when there's are 6 other enemy fighters, but when its just 1 in the blindspot, no.

Defending a large ship should be easier than attacking. Give ion shots a use. Have your team disable it to allow the other ships to get in closer.

Well I agree... in some point. I mostly play turrents on space (I suck at piloting fighters ) For the first idea I just say the anti fighter turret shouldn't have overheat... I usually do like 6 hit and 1 hit is just what make damage... (with like 30-50 ping and there is the small exploid or what if the laser hit. But no damage) soo till that problem is there the anti-fighter turret shouldn't have overheat... For the anti capital ship turret it should kill fighters in one shot... with that problem i said before its nearly impossible to hit a fighter with it anyway (only if it fly strait you have a chance to hit ) But I disagre to remove the blindspots... its help teamplay in space. You need to get some fighter to help to defend those spots

nothing more to say eh?? though i like RedShirt's idea of zooming in, sometimes you see a fighter/bomber approaching on the HUD, but you cant actually see him since they are pretty small, so zooming would be a good method to kill some straight on flying bombers/fighters that annoy you with their little crappy lasers

I have yet to master the antifighter guns, but in some cases I've hit a fighter 6+ times, with a hit indicator showing and their still flying. The fact they can shoot you when they aren't even represented by a pixel is further frustrating. Any chance on a zoom as the alt fire? I realise it would mess up the blockage Runner but it would allow the other ships the excuse of having a longer range, but without the ability to constantly fire as you can with the runner. Small targets+lag+small damage = hard to kill

Also, on the off chance the anti capital ship guns hit a fighter, shouldn't it be a 1 hit kill? surely these bolts would contain enough energy to vaporise a small fighter if they are meant to penetrate the thick hulls of larger ships.

I don't think it would imbalance too much, they have a slower turn rate, long recharge and a slight delay between clicking. the only times you can hit a fighter with them really is when they are right in front of them.