E mags

[Bots]

Very reasonable suggestion. Add energy weapon "magazines". Because it does not make sense for a laser [GUN] or Energy [GUN] to not have a detachable power cell. Why bring a lasgun into battle/patrol/carry if it's mag can't be refilled while you're fighting? 

Of course a power cell for a laser rifle is bigger than a ballistic rifle magazine so some drawbacks for the energy weapons still exist. 

But ballistic pistols (I hope) have tiny mags so an E mag for a Egun is still bigger.

[Carver]

Pistols do have magazines. I have little opinion on magazines by themselves (I've seen servers do it, I prefer heavy back-worn power packs personally) as much as concern that energy weapons may need a degree of rebalancing if they're made trivially reloadable.

[Fyni]

Yes, I always assumed the charge vs reload was a balance consideration between the two primary types of guns we have. Energy weapons were recently expanded in the ammo they have on one charge that they do feel competative.

I feel an alternative to this would be to make field recharging easier to access, like even starting with a charger backpack in the armoury. This take up a valueable slot (especially when in a voidsuit) and takes longer then a ballistic recharge, but stops you running completely out of ammo down in a cave on Ody with no chance of recharging at all.