My Attempt at makeing fighter bays a viable option.
*more detailed info for those who want it*
All fighters have had their flight speeds increased and all bays now take 40 space.

Fighters have two guns and fly as packs of 6 with a range of 120.
acceleration is 16
max velocity is 16 with the drive range set from 8 to 16

Bombers use overloaded torpedos and fly in packs of 5 with a range of 100.
acceleration is 14
max velocity is 14 with the drive range set from 7 to 14

Heavy fighters have both two guns and a torpedo and fly in packs of 4 with a range of 110.
acceleration is 18
max velocity is 18 with the drive range set from 10 to 18

Missles have had their ranges and speeds adjusted.
ranges: / speeds:
Nuke: 75 / 11
Merculite 85 / 13
Pulson 95 / 15
Zeon is 105 / 17

originaly missiles were all set at range 60 and speed 11

I think this adjustment give you a nice little niche to use the fighters and bombers in the mid game, and allows you to build a true carrier to be a stand-off platform for the fighters- just like they are used in sea warfare.

To offset the missle speed change the Point defence modifier was adjusted slightly the cooldown is now 50% faster VS 25% and the Accuracy is now +33% VS +25%
this also gives the fighters and heavy fighters a slight boost to their hit chance. and helps make point defence more effective VS missiles and fighters

Built and tested on version 54.11

I tested this using save games at various points along the tech tree. but am only now giveing it a full play through...

it's possible there could be a problem with the torpedos on the bombers if you, just happened to pick the wrong techs along the way, i'm not quite sure how the game will respond to not haveing torpedos and the mods tech researched, lucky for us their both a few tiers before the bombers and not part of a tech choice.

So I'd appreciate any feedback you all have, and if you encounter any bugs give me a discription of the problem and i'll look into it.