bayonets for quicker melee attacks

Why should it complete remove a slot? Why not just require cpu/pg that would be more inline with the eve roots. Scopes, stabilizers, silincers and the like shouldnt eat up tomuch more cpu/pg however underbarrels should use a good bit of cpu/pg.
Im all for weapon customization, however it shouldnt remove a slot simple use cpu/pg

Why should it complete remove a slot? Why not just require cpu/pg that would be more inline with the eve roots. Scopes, stabilizers, silincers and the like shouldnt eat up tomuch more cpu/pg however underbarrels should use a good bit of cpu/pg.
Im all for weapon customization, however it shouldnt remove a slot simple use cpu/pg

What would you say if there is a merc with proto ar, grenade launcher, 2 sidearms nearly no kick etc. standing in front of you? It is just to be fair.

My thoughts exactly somone with two fully decked out weapons + grenades + equipment can be extremly powerful or extremly cluttered.

Look at this way, they're additional modules that attach to the gun directly.

Grenade Launcher would be found in the grenades catagory of the market, and only compatible with rifle type weapons.

Scopes would be found in equipment.

ect ect. You buy these and equip them on the suit and they will appear on the gun.

Dual Weilding wouldnt have to be an attachment for example you just equip two side arms instead.

I like this a lot.

As for more other then those listed;
-Thermal Enchancement
-Night Scope
-Laser Sighting
-Silencer
-Increased Mag Clip Size
-Pistol/Rifle Grenades
-Compensator vs Recoil

You know, things that exist today...but with a little more power.

Weapons:
Weapons and turrets should have customizeable parts to increase some stats or reduce PG and CPU cost. We should be able to change the mag to increase ammo, the loading mechanism to increase rate of fire, bullets to increase damage and range, barrels to shoot more accurate and increase range, muzzle to decrease its recoil, noise and muzzle flash and the hull to reduce weight. Those that increase stats need a lot of CPU and PG so you can mount just a few or mount some that take fewer PG and CPU than the standard parts to make the weapon not too PG and CPU expensive. Different types of scopes are cheap because they give just the ability to personalize and some to zoom. There should also be additional parts which replace grenades, sidearms or melee weapons. There should be melee weapons which replace the normal melee weapon and are mounted on the muzzle, launchers that replace grenades and are mounted under the barrel and special weapons that replace the sidearm weapon which are just fitable on light weapons. They have the advantage that you swap faster to them respectively they throw the grenade farer.
There should be more types of grenades like EMP-Grenades which paralyze mercs and vessels, nanite grenades which create a fog with nanites that damages everyone inside it, smoke grenade or dazzle grenades. They could also be fitted like you choose a hull and detonator which effects the ignition, a explosive which has a effect on the explosion range and power and an effect.
There should be more types of melee weapons like tasers, poison injectors or just fists.
There should be more types of sidearm weapons like a flame thrower, a nanite sprayer that work like a nanite grenade inside or an electric pulse battery that creates a flash which jumps to every metal part within a certain range and paralyzes mercs and vessels and this a few times until its energy isnt strong enough anymore.They should also have interchangeable mags loading mechanisms, bullets, barrels, muzzles, hulls and scopes

I just dont think weapon customization should take up a slot , we should be able to change subsystem on the guns kinda like tech 3 ships in eve.

I think its a wonderful idea to give light class weapons some additional customization at the cost of the side arm slot (as in its a module that fits in the sidearm slot instead of other side arm types and require an appropirate weapon to attach to)

Reasoning for this was that originally I thought about grenade launchers for the unlreased gauss laser and plasma rifles but how would to manage the attachment without making a soldier 'super' in everything.

Eve online has always charge convience with an inconvience, for example you really cant tank armor and speed tanks you cant really shield and damage tank.

So it got me thinking more and just eventualy say make all attachments cost another slot somewhere else more in favor of its type and drawbacks.

Here are some examples

Grenade Launchers - Grenade Slot, use grenade throw to activate and fire
Spare Clips - Low Slot - This reduces HP endurance
Heat Sinks - High Slot - This competes against damage mods
Special Sensor 'scopes' - Equipment
'Shotgun' Attachment - Sidearm, swap weapons to access
Gryostabilizer - Recudes sway and kick, High slot.
Custom scopes - Head Slot.

Your thoughts and possibly other attachments you can think of?

only way this is possible, have a rigging system where everything from scopes to rof is adjustable but results in a cpu/pg cost.[...] nothing says i cant have a grenade, and a grenade launcher, possibly outfitted with different grenades.

The bandoliere and the gyrostabilizer are not really weapon attachment they are normal modules. Weapon customization is for me modifiing the weapon not building somthing that has an effect on the weapon. The minor system is okay but not everything must decrease another stat too. A barrel has nothing to do with the rof or damage it could change range, spread and heating. They could be like rigs in eve not able to remove without destroying the weapon. The major system should include just things you add to the weapon like scopes, launchers, sidearms, flashlights or laser pointers.

Actually it could, Heavier barrels would be harder to cooldown and cannot take the constant pressure as much. Also in a higher tech envrionment we could be very well be talking amatuers, rails, relays, focals when it comes to barrels.

Reason why I said decrease another stat (or increase an undesired one such as increase CPU fitting) is the way eve online works with rigs as well they typically penalize another weapons its to seriously discourage stacking mods as well twoards a singular goal.

The reasoning why rig removal destroys the gun is becuase you no longer have the original part to restore back into the gun. Thought it would seem silly for scope attachments some guns still had scopes installed.

I wanted the minor systems to be just small addons they really dont add that much more function to the gun overall, now this is where it gets tricky, a flashlight for example could potentially have a flash bang effect to it this would shift it over to a major system. But if its just illumination then it remains a minor.

They should decrease another stat but it should be realistic. The only thing that could change the damage would be the ammo and the speed of the bullet.
Barrels: + range, spread - overheating
Mechanism: + rof - kick
Hull: + overheating - kick
Mag: + ammo - rof
Muzzle: +kick, muzzle flash, noise -spread, range
They should have also an inverted version.

The weapon should just be destroyed by removing minor customs. You should be able to remove major customs without any problems because they are just added. If you put a scope on a weapon you dont remove back and front sight you put the scope over them. If you mean the standard scope of ARs and sniper rifles they could have them on default and if you remove them then they have back and front sight too.

Even if its just a flashlight it adds a function so it would be a major.