The Dragonfly launcher, post-buff, is one of the most powerful close-quarters weapons in the game. The Molotok has that, extremely powerful MAGs with a high ROF, and pretty good armor. In short, it's just too powerful for the early game. If you accidentally annoy one, it will almost certainly kill you in one, maybe two or three salvos of missiles.

Rather than nerf it, I would suggest porting the Anika out of Corporate Command, and making it the standard Black Market guard for the New Beyond and early Ungoverned Territories. It's a tough and capable little ship, but it's not capable of wiping the player out in an instant if they annoy it.

(I have similar complaints about the Manticore, but those are for another time)

Rather than gradually moving paid content into mainline, couldn't there just be Molotok/A and Molotok/B variants with the Molotok/A mounting a Moskva/33 and weaker MAGs?

johnbwatson 2 Nov 2016:

I can support this. Balances the risk/reward of piracy against the Black Market.

george moromisato 22 Sep 2019:

In 1.8 we have Molotok/A and /B