I'm opening a thread to help maintain transparency with what's changing with the mod in case folks want to weigh in on changes. This thread is for the upcoming 2.6 release.

Changes:
Mass Driver damage reduced from 15 to 12. This ended up being just a little too good and the change brings it back in line.

Inertial Stabilizers increased from 25 to 40 beam defense
Inertial Nullifiers increased from 50 to 70 beam defense.
Cloaking device adjusted to 70 missile defense and 55 beam defense
ECM jammer increase to 35 missile defense to make it more viable.
Multiwave ECM increased to 60 missile defense.
Wider Area fleet defense increase to 35 to match ECM jammer and 70 for self.
Armor max damage reduction increased to 75%. This is to prevent weapon differences from narrowing as better armor is used due to hitting the damage reduction cutoff too soon.


Missile Changes:
Nukes: Missile attack now 30, HP increased to 5.
Merculite: Missile atack now 30, HP increased to 8
Pulson: millsile attack now 50, HP reduced to 8
Zeon: Missile attack now 50, HP reduced to 8
Quantum: Missile attack now 55, HP reduced to 8

These changes make ECM more relevant and changes early game PD to be less effective as better armor is researched while later game PD is more capable of destroying missiles.

Computer Changes:
Base Energy Weapon Accuracy reduced from 25 to 0. These changes extend the time needed for beam/cannons to outpace missiles and increase the benefit of the battle scanner for early game use.

Shield Changes:
All shields now have a 3s cooldown before they begin recharging.
Multiphased shield set to 175% bonus shield to make it more attractive compared to hard shields.

Fixes:
Fixed incorrect entry in Trilarian Gunship which would prevent it from adding drones.
Pirate weapons updated