When a player activate the launch button, make the game check if the equipment / cargo is valid according to ship specification.

If not cancel the launch, just like when you forget to equip a powercell.

This way the game auto handle ship specification change propagation and veterans cannot keep undue advantage over the newcomers. And collectors can still admire the previous versions of the ships.

-1.

-1, first the hound nerf, now this? How idiotic can people be?

As idiotic as "some people" using a swarm hound exclusively just to annoy others? But yeah, just unload all the hounds that have an lport weapon fitted and problem goes away. I'm sure thats the easier option as they did it in the past to ships that had incorrect engines fitted.

Surely a simple database query and some dropped tables is easier than a new feature.

+1 Uncle Bloob and, as yoda said, it has been done in the past and it will provide the proper solution the hound was nerfed for in the first place.

Equal opportunity and equal ship for everyone.

This will never happen.

You mean they nerfed the hound but all the people that they nerfed it because of bought 100s of hounds with swarms and they can still use them?

+1

Either un-nerf it and let everyone have the same advantage or implement Deathspore's suggestion.

+1

+1

-1 Make the hound 2 L port and triKOS

+1 as it will solve any similar issues in the future as well.

@Mi5: Piss off with the demands for bloody TRI KoS. It is dumb.

This was effectively just put into production.