Live Weapon limit

EDIT: RandomStarfighter discovered the true limit of the original: The player has 16 active weapon slots, and all AI craft share 32 slots. Those slots contain any projectiles, lasers or warheads.

This means that there can be a total of 48 weapon live in the mission at once. 16 dedicated to the player, and 32 that are all shared by the AI.

For example in the bonus missions, there are a lot of ships in play firing. Bonus mission 1 is a good example. When the frigates jump in you have:

1 CRS (12 lasers)
2 Frigates (24 lasers between them)
4 Bwings (12 lasers between them)
4 Xwings (16 lasers between them)
4 Awings (8 lasers between them)
potentially 4 Gunboats (depending on the how the player dealt with them) (8 lasers between them)
6 T/A (3 more later with the third frigate but that comes later after FRG Rapier is destroyed) (12 lasers between them)
6 T/B (12 lasers between them)

That's a LOT of lasers going on at once. And that can definitely affect the outcome of a mission. So I suggest either limiting the lasers, or having a debug option that adds or removes the laser limit.

Or at least have a way of showing us the number of craft and lasers that are currently in play in a mission. That way we can see how the balance is affecting the missions.

I honestly don't want to be shooting in the dark here until I stumble upon some mechanic (like the 6 torpedo per target limit) that rebalances gameplay entirely. It would be nice to have these debug numbers/options to help finding out why certain missions are unbalanced. Then we can quickly identify the mechanics in X-wing to make a change in XWVM.

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