You could try to solve some of these problems by tinkering with the turn/acceleration rates, but it has to be applied to every ship individually, so it will be somewhat of a pain to implement.

That mod is no longer compatible. It is for 1.041 and Ent is at 1.051 

larani64, that IS the reason that I wrote the mod updater, ie so that my favourite mods from earlier expansions patches eg DBS & ms could be used on the latest patch, and I realised that most sins players would also have similar desires regarding other mods, so I released it,

when you want to update a mod MAKE sure it is in the CORRECT version mod folder eg for dbs it should be in the mods-entrenchment v1.041 folder AND NOT in the mods-entrenchment v1.051 folder,

then run the mod updater from sins 1.191+e+d rar and select the mods-entrenchment v1.041 folder in the SOURCE  and accept the default in the destination,

and then click on the 'copy and UPDATE mods' button,

then the mod updater will copy all the files that do NOT exist in the destination, but exist in the source from the source to the destination, and if the file is an entity file it then checks to see if it is in txt or bin, if in bin it uses the correct convertdata*.exe to convert to text, then searches the entity for the changes between versions and writes the changed lines to the entity, and after updating the entity and the entity was bin before it then converts BACK to bin using the latest convertdata*.exe and then continues on with the other files till all files in the correct folders have been copied and updated,

and as the convertdata's are poorly backward compatible that is WHY i had to release the utility WITH all the convertdata versions that have been released to date.

harpo

You are forgetting the inertial strain this puts on dampening systems.  Think of your crew man!  Do you really want 5000 Vasari puking their guts up and launching barrels of it at you because their commander wanted a Colony Capital that zigged and zagged, jagged and jigged and looped-dee-looped?  Combat is all about zooming in with no brakes, firing like mad, shooting past enemy and having to come about hard to do it again.  SpaceBall I had it right... "We Brake for No One"

You can get an Entrenchment compatible version of the Dynamic Battle System here.

Incidentally, you can make the ships spin around their axis and fire while moving backwards, you just have to increase mass and inertia and also angular speed to allow for that. But it looks silly as hell, because all ships then look like cats on ice.

The latest version of DBS has an updated flight and damage model, but that's geared more for a "cinematic" space combat, where ships fly like planes, so it's probably not your thing.

As for technical obstacles, there are two, not just the AI. Second one is that the fighter movements are hardcoded in. Nothing anyone can do about that unfortunately, or there would be a lot more Z axis movement (it happens now, but not often).