Increase weapon cubes to the following
2 cu - Small Port
3 cu - Large Port
5 cu - Turret

why?

-1, especially to changing small port weapons.

Because the cube should reflect the weapon for transport and trade. To me it seems that there should be a natural progression of actual size for port items. Maybe not as I've outlined above, but the difference should be reflected.

Perhaps a large port item such as the megaposi isn't as large as the chaos swarm. Ideally I would like more differentiation between weapon types for cube determination. My op was to get the discussion going with a very basic solution to something I consider absurd.

My main concern here is credits-per-cu. Making an L-port weapon take three times as much space means a moth-full is worth 1/3 as much. This would make PVE piracy a lot less exciting -- and it's already pretty lame.

If you included a partial price increase with the increased volume, I'd be more inclined to agree with it. E.g., a 2cu weapon should cost at least 1.5 times what it did when it was 1cu, and a 3cu item would cost at least 2 times its original. Also I don't see much point in making S-port weapons bigger. So I'd say 1cu for S-port weapons, 2cu for smaller L-port weapons, 3cu for bigger L-port weapons, and 10cu? for capital weapons. For turrets, any of the above depending on weapon.

My reluctance there is that it perpetuates the static or near static same system weapons trade. Otherwise I'd have no objection.

Just a note, but CU stands for Cargo Unit, not Cube.

"How much space does this cargo take? 3 cubes? What are you on dude, my ship's hold is round! Oh, Cargo units. Gotchya"

+1 rar

Thought it stood for Cubic Unit.

Eh, I work as a warehouse shipping manager and constantly use the word 'cube' as a shorthand reference to the cubic feet of the load.