The tough part I would think is the ESGs are energy-based weapons. So the more energy you put in the more powerful it is. Well, Starmada does not have a concept of energy.  Yes, could have another weapon that fire 360 degrees and give people the option to either fire the ESG as a weapon or use it as protection. I see it as a Phaser-3 that does around 2-3 times the amount of damage.

I am writing a program to play the Star Fleet Universe Armada games (Klingon/Romulan/Distant Armada) over the Internet. I currently have a service that allows people to play both SFB and Federation Commander and I will want to add Star Fleet Armada support.

Jeff,
How much SFB have you played? The explosion rules are meant to discourage the stacking of ships. But it doesn't really. The only rule that is effective is Fed Com's rule that limits the number of ships that can fire out of the hex. (i.e. there is a maximum of 3 ships that can fire at the target(s) in the same hex) The problem with the SFB explosion rules is that the explosion value will not penetrate a fresh shield. The only thing that the explosion rules do is to make sure that fighters avoid the smaller ships in the fleet so as to not make the smaller ships a target and have the squadron of fighters disappear in the explosion of the small ship.

When it comes to repair,  I don't think it should be added due to this. Fed Com already has this and it extends the games way too long. In addition to this, in SFB is the WE loses it's Plasma-R for the most part it is out of the game. I think it take 2 turns to repair it and another 3 turns until the Plasma-R is ready until the point the War Eagle is basically out of the fight because it is just a target.

When it comes the issue with "Active"/"Active", I think that it is a little late to discuss that. Though, I do agree with you on that regard.

My only concern about the fighters is if they are allowed to have seeking weapons themselves and therefore making them over powering which is the case with SFB.

One other thing that I currently don't see an anwer for:

For multiple weapons in the same battery do you specify more than one line starting with [X], [Y] or [Z]?

I went to both sessions and it was great.

I don't see it in the "Starmada: Admiralty Edition" rulebook. I see the construction rules. I found some examples on the board. To me, it seems to be just a text dump of the ship card. Though, I can not find anything that truly defines the format.

But anyway, it looks like a lot text processing for the client to get it into internal data structures so that the damage allocator would work.

So other than that feature/functionality is there anything that you see that I am missing from my initial proposal that is critical and wold make it unusable if it was not there?