I desire big foohkin guns.

[warped marsh]

I'll be respectful of your time and keep this short:

I (and presumably others) desire:

1. To be able to build 2x2 and 3x3 buildings or whatever they are called.
2. To be able to salvage 2x2 or 3x3 big foohkin guns from destroyed ships.
3. To be able to purchase/research/loot computer boards for big foohkin guns at exorbitant prices.

About #1) The thing I'm personally most interested in is bigger thrusters (I build custom ships sometimes). I'm sure that TSF and PDV and random smugglers would want these as well. Firstly, the smugglers will want bigger speed and modify their ship. Secondly, TSF can see the thing you've created and go "thats different than usual" and investigate (assuming the smuggler has their IFF off). Or the cops might modify their own ships to catch the smugglers (i was on the receiving end of this one time, they slapped a whole lot more thrusters on their ship).

About #2) I am both excited and terrified of this prospect. Its exciting to salvage guns from wrecked ships. Its terrifying to think that anyone (single or multiple) can just use their ID to purchase the ships with the best guns, then unanchor them, move them aside, sell the ship, repeat the process a few times and now they've got several times the armaments ready to be mounted on a ship of their choice. The only limiting factor here is the gunnery server, of which I have little knowledge of.

About #3) This might be a limiting measure. If #2 is implemented, the whole balance of the server might need reworked. The fine gentlemen that work on the server surely don't desire more work and as such, I'd suggest leaving things as they are, but implementing #3! The idea with #3 is to make big foohkin guns buildable so long as the person building them has a computer board for the gun they want to build. Once its built, the gun cannot be un-anchored and it requires connecting to a gunnery server to be used. NOT TO MENTION building costs! The bigger the gun, the more it'll cost. Expect a 3x3 laser battery with 3 tubes to cost upwards of 1000 plasteel, plus lots of plasma and uranium. These things are NOT cheap.

Method a) Purchase them (with spesos) from a specific computer that TSF and PDV and sindies and nanotrasen have access to (but not civilians). Also, consider making the supply limited in number.
Method b) Research them. They won't be cheap...
Method c) Slim chances of looting them from space wrecks or expeditions or the big boulders (roids) that appear every so often. Bigger chances of looting them from the sindie base or the nanotrasen base or... I'm not sure.