Should there be adjustments to weapons?

Maybe I didn't give pulse weapons a fair trial. I agree that pulse and assault weapons were the best at finishing ships off due to reliability and reduction of overkill. Having every shot's damage reduced by both shielding and armour made me think that they were only useful against riders or badly crippled ships as I stated earlier. The distance from ships also reduced the effectiveness of pulse weaponry.

Kinetics did have reliability issues I agree but i focused on upgrading them because the enemy ships didn't really have a defence additional to armour like shielding and flakk. When their accuracy was upgraded kinetics were much more reliable but i do still think they need a small buff.

Correct me if I'm wrong but using kinetics against armoured targets first would mean that overall less damage is absorbed by armour. Kinetics would deal major damage causing a large reduction in armour so other weapons would deal more damage compared to if they attacked the ship first, meaning that your potential damage in one turn would be higher.

In addition I thought that in the sunrider universe, it was implied that kinetics were the main guns of ships.  That is what I meant by 'the main weaponry'

It actually seems like we are in agreement on the topic of Kinetics, the difference between us seems to be what we chose to do the fix the kinetic's accuracy issue, I chose to improve their accuracy, you chose to switch to energy weapons.